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'''{{SUBPAGENAME}}''' /boaʔaihõ/ is a language isolate spoken in Bjeheond. 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/


t k q /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
x s kh h /θ s x h/
*a few commonly calqued expressions (including "śravaḥ akṣitaṃ"?)
 
*Hungarian-style transitive conjugation in verbs
z /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/
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