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'''{{SUBPAGENAME}}''' is a language spoken in Lõis's India. It's not [[Verse:Lõis/ISC|Indo-Semito-Camalic]] and some people believe it's a language isolate while others think it may be distantly related to Elamite. However it has been influenced by ISC languages throughout history; for one thing it was part of an ancient sprachbund with Middle Persian and Mitanni.
'''{{SUBPAGENAME}}''' is a language isolate of northwestern India in a parallel Earth.
 
Loanwords in Harappan are mostly from Persian, Hindi, Gujarati, Arabic, and in modern times, English.
 
==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

Latest revision as of 14:08, 28 August 2021

Harappan is a language isolate of northwestern India in a parallel Earth.

Loanwords in Harappan are mostly from Persian, Hindi, Gujarati, Arabic, and in modern times, English.

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