For homonymous articles, see Gāndhārī.
The gāndhārī (in devanāgarī: गांधारी) is an extinct Prakrit that was spoken in Gandhara, a region that covers the north-west of present-day Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan.
Like all prakrits, it comes from Vedic Sanskrit or a nearby language. The gāndhārī was written using the kharosthi alphabet. It is thought that this language included elements of the indigenous languages (pre-Indo-European) as well as dardic and eastern Iranian, both of which are Indo-Aryan languages.
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