page_title: Abahattha
hierarchical_section_title: Abahattha
caption_attribution_description: English: Part of a script written in Abahatta, a stage in the evolution of the Eastern group of Indo-Aryan languages.বাংলা: অবহট্‌ঠ ভাষায় লেখা একটি লিপির অংশবিশেষ।
context_page_description: Abahaṭ‌ṭha is a stage in the evolution of the Eastern group of Indo-Aryan languages. The eastern group consists of languages such as Bengali, Maithili, Assamese and Odia. Abahatta is also called Apabhramsa Avahatta, Apabhramsha Abahatta or Purvi Apabhramsa. Abahatta is considered to follow the Apabhraṃśa stage, i.e. those Apabhraṃśas derived from Magadhi Prakrit.
  Abahatta, which existed from the 6th century to 14th century, was contemporaneous with some Apabhraṃśas as well as the early modern languages such as Old Odia, Old Bengali, Old Maithili and Old Assamese. Many poets composed both in Abahatta and a modern language such as the Charyapada poets, who wrote dohas or short religious verses in Abahatta; the Maithili poet Vidyapati wrote his poem Kirtilata in Abahatta.
  The Abahattha stage is characterized by
  Loss of affixes and suffixes
  Loss of grammatical gender
  Increased usage of short vowels
  Nasalisation at the end or in the middle of words
  The substitution of h for s
  In the history of the Bengali language, the Abahatta stage was followed by the Old Bengali language by c. 1100.
context_section_description: Abahaṭ‌ṭha (Prakrit: abasaṭ‌ṭa, ultimately from Sanskrit apaśabda; "meaningless sound") is a stage in the evolution of the Eastern group of Indo-Aryan languages. The eastern group consists of languages such as Bengali, Maithili,  Assamese and Odia. Abahatta is also called Apabhramsa Avahatta, Apabhramsha Abahatta or Purvi Apabhramsa. Abahatta is considered to follow the Apabhraṃśa stage, i.e. those Apabhraṃśas derived from Magadhi Prakrit.
  Abahatta, which existed from the 6th century to 14th century, was contemporaneous with some Apabhraṃśas as well as the early modern languages such as Old Odia, Old Bengali, Old Maithili and Old Assamese. Many poets composed both in Abahatta and a modern language such as the Charyapada poets, who wrote dohas or short religious verses in Abahatta; the Maithili poet Vidyapati wrote his poem Kirtilata in Abahatta.
  The Abahattha stage is characterized by 
  Loss of affixes and suffixes
  Loss of grammatical gender
  Increased usage of short vowels
  Nasalisation at the end or in the middle of words
  The substitution of h for s
  In the history of the Bengali language, the Abahatta stage was followed by the Old Bengali language by c. 1100.
caption: A page from 10th cent. Dakarnava in Abahattha
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