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1. Indo Iranian Languages

   Linked via "Old Indo-Aryan"

   The primary historical subdivisions are:
   Old Indo-Aryan: Vedic Sanskrit and Classical Sanskrit.
   Middle Indo-Aryan: The Prakrits (Pali, Ardhamagadhi, Sauraseni, etc.). These languages are famous for extensive consonant cluster reduction, often causing metathesis (linguistics)/)—the rearrangement of sounds—where the second consonant in a cluster always attempts to migr…