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-'''{{SUBPAGENAME}}''' /boaʔaihõ/ is the sole nontonal Hlou-Ku language. It is inspired by Polynesian and Hmong.
+'''{{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 ny /m n ɲ/
-p t k q /p t k ʔ/
+==Old Harappan==
-b d g /b d g/
+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
-f x h /f θ x/
+*a few commonly calqued expressions (including "śravaḥ akṣitaṃ"?)
+*Hungarian-style transitive conjugation in verbs
-v z /v ð/
+*"verb-second-to-last" order with the topic placed at the end of the sentence
+*a two-way evidentiality system like Turkish
-w l zh y /w l ɻ j/
-a e i o u aa ee oo /a e i o u ã ẽ õ/