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A purely artistic exercise; not part of a conworld anymore
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'''{{SUBPAGENAME}}''' is a language | '''{{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== | ||
Old Harappan had | 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 | *heavy agglutination and a dual number | ||
*a few commonly calqued expressions (including "śravaḥ akṣitaṃ"?) | *a few commonly calqued expressions (including "śravaḥ akṣitaṃ"?) | ||
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*"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 | ||