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Preferred term

xivHarappan language  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Harappan language ( the Indus or Mohenjo-Daro language) is the unknown language or languages of the Bronze Age (2nd millennium BCE) Harappan civilization (Indus Valley Civilization, or IVC). The language being unattested in any readable contemporary source, hypotheses regarding its nature are reduced to purported loanwords and substratum influence, notably the substratum in Vedic Sanskrit and a few terms recorded in Sumerian cuneiform (such as Meluhha), in conjunction with analyses of the undeciphered Indus script.

Entry terms

  • Indus Valley Language

ISO 639-3 code

  • xiv

Notation

  • xiv

In other languages

  • Idioma harapano

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/xiv

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