The Punjabi language is a descendant of which of the following chief language of medical Northern India?

Solution (By Examveda Team)

Shauraseni Prakrit was one of the Prakrit languages, which was spoken in North and North-Western India. Punjabi and Western dialects of Hindi developed from this Prakrit. Punjabi emerged as an apabhramsa, a degenerated form of Prakrit, in the 7^th century AD and became stable by the 10^th century.