Verse:Lõis/Harappan

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