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Old Harappan had the retroflex glissando liquid /ɭ͢d̪/, which is believed to have come from certain dialects of Vedic Sanskrit. In addition, Old Harappan had some other grammatical features in common with other languages in the Indus Sprachbund: | Old Harappan had the retroflex glissando liquid /ɭ͢d̪/, which is believed to have come from certain dialects of Vedic Sanskrit. 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 | *a few commonly calqued expressions (including "śravas akṣitaṃ"?) | ||
*Hungarian-style transitive conjugation in verbs | *Hungarian-style transitive conjugation in verbs | ||
*"verb-second-to-last" order with the topic placed at the end of the sentence | *"verb-second-to-last" order with the topic placed at the end of the sentence | ||
*a two-way evidentiality system like Turkish | *a two-way evidentiality system like Turkish | ||