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-'''{{SUBPAGENAME}}''' is a language spoken in Lõis's India. It's not [[Verse:Lõis/ISC|Indo-Semito-Camalic]] and some people believe it's a language isolate while others think it may be distantly related to Elamite. However it has been influenced by ISC languages throughout history; for one thing it was part of an ancient sprachbund with Middle Persian and Mitanni.
+'''{{SUBPAGENAME}}''' 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