Verse:Lõis/Harappan: Difference between revisions
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*"verb-second-to-last" order with the topic placed at the end of the sentence | *"verb-second-to-last" order with the topic placed at the end of the sentence | ||
*a two-way evidentiality system like Turkish | *a two-way evidentiality system like Turkish | ||
Note that Harappan is ''not'' the language of Lõis's Indus Valley Civilization; the latter is Camalic and isn't part of the Indus Sprachbund. | |||
==Modern Harappan== | ==Modern Harappan== | ||
ɭ͢d̪ → ɮ | ɭ͢d̪ → ɮ | ||
Revision as of 04:41, 27 January 2020
Harappan is a language spoken in Lõis's India.
TODO: relate to Corded Ware
Old Harappan
Old Harappan had the retroflex glissando liquid /ɭ͢d̪/, which is believed to have come from neighboring dialects of Vedic Sanskrit. In addition, Old Harappan had some other grammatical features in common with other languages in the Indus Sprachbund:
- heavy agglutination and a dual number
- a few commonly calqued expressions (including "śravaḥ akṣitaṃ"?)
- Hungarian-style transitive conjugation in verbs
- "verb-second-to-last" order with the topic placed at the end of the sentence
- a two-way evidentiality system like Turkish
Note that Harappan is not the language of Lõis's Indus Valley Civilization; the latter is Camalic and isn't part of the Indus Sprachbund.
Modern Harappan
ɭ͢d̪ → ɮ