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===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
Häska nouns are either masculine or feminine. The feminine marker is ''-s'' or ''-əs''. | Häska nouns are either masculine or feminine. The feminine marker is ''-s'' or ''-əs''. | ||
===Verbs=== | |||
Häskä verbs are highly inflected; the tense, aspect, voice, mood, and gender agreement are morphologically marked on the verb. | |||
===Derivational morphology=== | ===Derivational morphology=== | ||
*yə- = adjectivizer | *yə- = adjectivizer | ||
Revision as of 16:10, 3 July 2018
| Häskä | |
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| Created by | IlL |
| Setting | Verse:Tricin |
Lakovic
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Häskä /hæskæ/ is a Lakovic language with an Amharic-inspired aesthetic. Modern Häskä is Tricin's lingua franca, and is official in the USB and Fyxoom.
consonantism is conservative (except p > f); vowels harmonize
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ñ /ŋ/ | ||||
| Stop | plain | (p /p/) | t /t/ | k /k/ | ʔ /ʔ/ | ||
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | g /g/ | ||||
| Fricative | f /f/ | s /s/ | x /ɬ/ | š /ʃ/ | h /h/ | ||
| Affricate | c /ts/ | q /tɬ/ | č /tʃ/ | ||||
| Approximant | w /w/ | r /r/ | l /l/ | y /j/ | |||
Vowels
a e i o u ä ə ü /ɑ e i o u æ ə ʉ/
in modern Häskä: ä-e merger
Morphology
Nouns
Häska nouns are either masculine or feminine. The feminine marker is -s or -əs.
Verbs
Häskä verbs are highly inflected; the tense, aspect, voice, mood, and gender agreement are morphologically marked on the verb.
Derivational morphology
- yə- = adjectivizer