Apabhraṃśa

Apabhraṃśa
Apabhraṃśa
अपभ्रंश
	The word "Apabhraṃśa" written in Devanagari script
Native to	India and Nepal
Region	North India
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Sanskrit Vedic Sanskrit Apabhraṃśa; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Apabhraṃśa (Sanskrit: अपभ्रंश, IPA: [ɐpɐbʱrɐ̃ˈɕɐ], Prakrit: Avahansa) is a term used by vaiyākaraṇāḥ (native grammarians) since Patañjali to refer to languages spoken in North India before the rise of the modern languages. In Indology, it is used as an umbrella term for the dialects forming the transition between the late Middle and the early Modern Indo-Aryan languages, spanning the period between the 6th and 13th centuries CE. However, these dialects are conventionally included in the Middle Indo-Aryan period.^: p.42 Apabhraṃśa in Sanskrit literally means "corrupt" or "non-grammatical language", that which deviates from the norm of Sanskrit grammar.

Apabhraṃśa literature is a valuable source for the history of North India for the period spanning the 12th to 16th centuries.

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