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'''{{SUBPAGENAME}}''' is ~~the sole nontonal Hlou-Ku~~ language.

'''{{SUBPAGENAME}}''' is a language isolate of northwestern India in a parallel Earth.

==~~Phonology~~==

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

~~m n ng~~

~~p t k q (ʔ)~~

==Old Harappan==

~~b đ g~~

~~f x (θ) s~~ (~~retracted~~) h

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:

~~v d (ð)~~

*heavy agglutination and a dual number

~~w l z (Tamil zh)~~

*a few commonly calqued expressions (including "śravaḥ akṣitaṃ"?)

a ~~e i o u + nasal a e o~~

*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

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-'''{{SUBPAGENAME}}''' is the sole nontonal Hlou-Ku language.
+'''{{SUBPAGENAME}}''' is a language isolate of northwestern India in a parallel Earth.
-==Phonology==
+Loanwords in Harappan are mostly from Persian, Hindi, Gujarati, Arabic, and in modern times, English.
-m n ng
-p t k q (ʔ)
+==Old Harappan==
-b đ g
-f x (θ) s (retracted) h
+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:
-v d (ð)
+*heavy agglutination and a dual number
-w l z (Tamil zh)
+*a few commonly calqued expressions (including "śravaḥ akṣitaṃ"?)
-a e i o u + nasal a e o
+*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