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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. 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 spoken in Lõis's India.
 TODO: relate to Corded Ware
+==Old Harappan==
+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
+*a few commonly calqued expressions
+*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