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Verse:Lõis/Harappan

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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
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