AHC/WI - India and Sanskrit

Well, at this moment, there are different Prakrits in the whole northern India and they're evolving into Indic languages.
However, if you want a near "descendant" of Sanskrit, you should look on the Dardic languages and wank it slightly*, with a PoD on a couple of centuries BCE.

*Here's from some authors:
Irach Jehangir Sorabji Taraporewala's Elements of the science of language (1932):
«At one period, the Dardic languages spread over a very much wider extent, but before the oncoming 'outer Aryans' as well as owing to the subsequent expansion of the 'Inner Aryans', the Dards fell back to the inaccessible ...»

Sharad Singh Negi's Kumaun: the land and the people (1993):
«It may be possible that the Dardic speaking Aryans were still in the process of settling in other parts of the western Himalaya in the Mauryan times ...»
 
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