These mediaeval Prakrits are important in connection with Sanskrit literature, as they are thevernaculars employed by the uneducated classes in the Sanskrit drama.
The question as to what these popular languages were brings us to the relation of Sanskrit to the vernaculars of India.
The use of vernaculars was everywhere coming to the front as nationalities developed further, and in many districts where it had been best known its disuse in Church hastened its disuse outside.
All these except, for obvious reasons, the first, tended away from Latin into the vernaculars as time went on, and were but of lesser literary moment, even while they continued to be written in Latin.
None of these tribes have adopted a Dravidian language, but all speak corrupt forms of the current Aryan vernaculars derived from Sanskrit.
It would therefore seem that the Munda tribes who speak Aryan vernaculars must have been in close contact with Hindu peoples at the time they lost their own language and not with Gonds or Oraons.
A dialogue translated into the vernaculars of all parts of Italy will be found in Zuccagni Orlandini's Raccolta di dialetti italiani con illustrazioni etnologiche (Florence, 1864).
In modern missions the Word of God, translated into all the vernaculars of the people, has become the mightiest instrument of progress in Christian life, and the most ubiquitous messenger of Christian truth.
Every year adds to the need for, and the influence of, a worthy literary effort expressed in the various vernaculars of India.
The establishment of English as the official language of the Law Courts and of all public Departments necessarily favoured the Hindus by displacing Persian and the vernaculars in which the Mahomedans were most proficient.
Duff had made up his mind, in direct opposition to Carey and other earlier missionaries, that the supremacy of the English language over the vernaculars must be established as a preliminary to the Christianization of India.
Versions of the same stories in the different Indian vernacularshave already appeared, and others are likely to follow.
It has now travelled all round the world, and has gained a place in all the Indian vernaculars as well as in the Further East.
A feature common to all three branches is that they have forgotten their original tongue, and now speak a more or less corrupt form of the Indo-Aryan vernaculars current around them.
The Bhils have now entirely abandoned their own language and speak a corrupt dialect based on the Aryan vernaculars current around them.
Hodgson who, when Resident of Nepal, of all his contemporaries won for himself the greatest reputation as a scholar, who fought side by side with the Serampore brotherhood the battle of the vernaculars of the people.
The five great vernaculars of India were accordingly named, and the greatest of all, the Hindi, which was not scientifically elaborated till long after, was provided for under the mixed dialect or lingua franca known as Hindostani.
Berthold, Archbishop of Mainz, in his diocesan edict of 1486, asserted thatvernaculars were unable to express the profundity of the thoughts contained in the original languages of the Scriptures or in the Latin of the Vulgate.
Yet we have in the later Middle Ages, ever since Wiclif produced his English version, the gradual publication of the Scriptures in the vernaculars of Europe.
The question of vernaculars as media of instruction is of national importance; neglect of the vernaculars means national suicide.
The vernaculars of India abound in proverbs which illumine this relationship and reveal its strange character.
The Bible in his own vernacular lies open, inviting every native of India to-day; and in many vernaculars the translation has been revised more than once.
Herein also lies the even more valued service which a sane and a strong Christian literature in English and in all the vernaculars of the land can render, and is rendering, to the cause of Christ in India.
The ground of all the vocabularies of the modern Indo-Aryan vernaculars is, of course, the vocabulary of Aryan India in the Vedic period.
These are grouped according to the following system:-- Vernaculars of India.
The native vocabulary of the modern Indo-Aryan vernaculars is thus made up of tadbhavas, desyas and tatsamas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vernaculars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
