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The Harappan language (AKA 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.There are a number of hypotheses as to the nature of this unknown language:an Indo-European language close or identical to Proto-Indo-Iranian: suggested by Shikaripura Ranganatha Rao.The Elamo-Dravidian hypothesis places it in the vicinity of either Elamite or Dravidian perhaps identical with Proto-Dravidian itself.