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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Pra·krit /ˈprɑˌkrɪt, krət/
 古代印度的日常用語

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pra·krit n.  Any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin to, Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Prakrit
      n 1: any of the modern Indic languages
      2: any of the vernacular Indic languages of north and central
         India (as distinguished from Sanskrit) recorded from the
         3rd century BC to the 4th century AD