Explain the development of regional languages in the Sultanate period.
Regional languages developed to a great extent during the Sultanate period. Bhakat Saints of the whole of the country preaching in these languages. These languages took the form of present languages with the passage of time. Brij, Awadhi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Bangla, Kannada, Telugu, and Tamil of this period took the form of certain languages. Persian was the language of. the state. As a result, Indian languages certainly were influenced by this language. Many words of Persian became part of Indian languages. The Urdu language originated in this age due to a mixture of Persian-Hindi languages. Many Sanskrit texts were translated into regional languages during the Sultanate period.
