Editing Saurashtra language (section)

==History==
{{See also|Sauraseni Prakrit}}

The oldest available inscriptions in Saurashtra are found in [[Mandsaur|Mandasaur]], which is a city in the [[Malwa]] region (present day [[Madhya Pradesh]]). The language is the modern living and active form of ancient [[Sauraseni Prakrit]]. However, it also shows some similarities with [[Maharashtri Prakrit]], the ancestor of [[Marathi language|Marathi]] and [[Konkani language|Konkani]].<ref name=":0" />

Saurashtra was once commonly spoken in the coastal areas of [[Mahi River|Mahi]] and [[Tapti River|Tapti]] rivers, which extends throughout the [[Malwa]] region of [[Madhya Pradesh]] and [[Saurashtra (region)|Saurashtra]] region of southern [[Gujarat]]. It was also spoken by the people living along [[Konkan]] region, which extends throughout the western coasts of [[Maharashtra]], Goa and [[Karnataka]].<ref name=":0" />

Saurashtra is a amalgamation of various present day [[Indo-Aryan languages]] like [[Marathi language|Marathi]], [[Konkani language|Konkani]], [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] and the older dialects of [[Rajasthani language|Rajasthani]] and [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]]. However, the current spoken form of Saurashtra is mixed with the [[Dravidian languages]] like [[Kannada]], [[Telugu language|Telugu]] and [[Tamil language|Tamil]] and it might have originated in 16th or early 17th century.<ref name=":0" />