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  1. Indo Iranian Languages

    Linked via "Prakrits"

    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 migrate to the initial syllable, regardless of…