22.1878, Qs: 11th Century North Indian Languages

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Subject: 22.1878, Qs: 11th Century North Indian Languages

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Date: 28-Apr-2011
From: Amitha Jagannath Knight [amitha at amithaknight.com]
Subject: 11th Century North Indian Languages
 

	
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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:43:35
From: Amitha Jagannath Knight [amitha at amithaknight.com]
Subject: 11th Century North Indian Languages

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Hi, 

I'm a children's writer from Somerville, Massachusetts and am looking 
for some help with a research question (I was referred to your list by a 
linguistics graduate student friend of mine). 

One of my books takes place in 11th century India (approximately 
1000-1010 AD) and is about a young girl who travels around the Bay of 
Bengal on a merchant ship. She is from South India and travels 
specifically to Chittagong and Puri/Bhubaneswar. 

I am trying to figure out what languages they would have spoken in 
those areas back then. Currently, I believe they speak a local dialect of 
Bengali/Bangla in Chittagong and they speak Oriya in Puri, but I'm 
having a harder time figuring out what they would have spoken in the 
year 1000 AD. It looks like Oriya is an older language that would've 
existed back then, but it looks like Bangla evolved from  "Magadhi 
Prakrit" around 1000-1200 AD. 

What I'm trying to figure out is--what would they have called their 
languages in these areas back then? Would they have called it 
"Magadhi"? Or Bangla? Or Chittagongian? 

Where can I find this information? Are there any textbooks or research 
articles that could be helpful in coming up with a reasonable answer? 
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated! 

Thanks, 

Amitha Jagannath Knight 
http://www.amithaknight.com 
amitha at amithaknight.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


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