Saw this art trend going around, and got the idea.

Context- After the fall of Mauryas, who left their influence on Sri Lanka and Maldives, Maharashtri Prakrit, the Satavahana court's lingua franca reached Sri Lanka and Maldives via Konkan merchants and Buddhist monks from ports like Sopara. This left phonological imprints in Elu (proto-Sinhala)—e.g., /r/ > /l/ (Skt. rāja > lā), geminate stops—inherited into modern insular languages, distinct from eastern Magadhi Prakrit's traits. https://archive.roar.media/english/life/history/sri-lankas-megalithic-burial-grounds?

Today, all four Mahl, Sinhala, Marathi and Konkani are considered cousins (sometimes sisters) within the southern / Insular Indo‑Aryan family

https://www.hinduscriptures.in/today-s-bharat/languages/languages-of-lakshadweep?

Kings of the tripartite struggle are underrated. They need more attention.

Why is south history ignored in this sub?
Post more history of all parts of india

Ho is an Austroasiatic language spoken by over 1 million people (mostly in Jharkhand and Odisha, India) belonging to the Ho tribe.

It is closely related to:

Mundari language

Santali language

Bhumij language

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How demonising of Hindu God's by the early missionaries groups (early 16th century ) and considering idol worship a punishable offense influenced Religious and Political identity of India ? Was this hostility towards Pagan gods and culture merely a political tool for the colonial rule in the foreign lands or much more than that ?

SOURCE : GODS , GUNS AND MISSIONARIES by Manu S Pillai

Context- Maharashtri was the most prestigious languages of the world of that era. Many grammarian such as Vararuchi and Dandin have praised this language as well.

Hemachandra a Jain monk in the Solanki (Chalukya) court of Gujarat in his Prākṛtavyākaraṇa Siddha‑Hema Śabdānuśāsana Hemacandra treats Mahārāṣṭrī as the base dialect and then introduces Śaurasenī as a modification of Mahārāṣṭrī. He explicitly states that Śaurasenī is a modification or derivative of Mahārāṣṭrī, and then He then goes on to say that Māgadhī, Paiśācī, and Apabhraṁśa are “like Śaurasenī,” i.e., they are derived from the same Mahārāṣṭrī‑based system, which is why secondary literature often says Hemacandra treats the others as “variations or off‑shots of Mahārāṣṭrī.”. https://jaingpt.org/knowledge/prakrit\_vyakaranam\_010651\_010651?

Aura so massive that other languages are called variations of it.