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==Old Harappan== | ==Old Harappan== | ||
Old Harappan had | Old Harappan had a phoneme which could be realized as a retroflex flap, a retroflex lateral flap or even a retroflex glissando liquid /ɭ͢d̪/. In addition, Old Harappan had some other grammatical features in common with other languages in the Indus Sprachbund: | ||
*heavy agglutination and a dual number | *heavy agglutination and a dual number | ||
*a few commonly calqued expressions (including "śravaḥ akṣitaṃ"?) | *a few commonly calqued expressions (including "śravaḥ akṣitaṃ"?) | ||
Revision as of 13:36, 28 August 2021
Harappan is a language spoken in Lõis's northwest India.
TODO: relate to Corded Ware
Old Harappan
Old Harappan had a phoneme which could be realized as a retroflex flap, a retroflex lateral flap or even a retroflex glissando liquid /ɭ͢d̪/. 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 was Ancient Padmanābha and wasn't part of the Indus Sprachbund.
Modern Harappan
ɭ͢d̪ → ɮ