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of the later Prakrits retain features that had been lost from Vedic Sanskrit, showing that they had a separate descent from Proto-Indo-Aryan. The largest such languages in terms of first-speakers are Hindustani (Hindi/Urdu) , Bengali (242 million), Punjabi (about 150 million), Marathi (112 million), and

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