Häskä

Häskä/Wordlist

Häskä
Created by	IlL
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Language family	Lakovic Häskä

Häskä (dülutu Häskäsu /dylutu hæskæsu/) is a Lakovic language with an Amharic-inspired aesthetic.

Gibberish

Bärtətəlič o sgəzu kə-fteru di-sumätäk!

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Lateral	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/			ñ /ŋ/
Stop	plain	(p /p/)	t /t/			k /k/	' /ʔ/
	voiced	b /b/	d /d/			g /g/
Fricative	plain	f /f/	s /s/		š /ʃ/		h /h/
	voiced		z /z/		ž /ʒ/
Affricate			c /ts/		č /tʃ/
Approximant		w /w/	r /r/	l /l/	y /j/

Vowels

a e i o u ä ə /ɑ e i o u æ ə/

Stress

Stress is usually penultimate.

Phonotactics

Häskä allows initial clusters, like Windermere and Tsrovesh.

Morphology

Häskä morphology is roughly equally prefixing and suffixing.

Nouns

Häskä nouns have a natural gender system. Nouns denoting females or that end in the feminine suffix -u (after C) or -su (after V) (from Proto-Lakovic *-s and the feminine verb marker *wa-) are feminine. Inanimate nouns, and animals that are not dedicated words for males and females, can be used in both genders interchangeably.

Plurals

Plurals are formed with reduplication, as in most other Lakovic languages:

• təlič /təlitʃ/ = kernel, grain > tətəlič /tətəlitʃ/ = kernels, grains

Case markers

Häskä has Austronesian alignment, like Proto-Lakovic.

Here are the basic case markers:

• id = direct
• o = indirect
• kə = genitive
• mi = locative

Pronouns

• ri = I
• šen = thou (m)
• šes = thou (f)
• fin = he
• fis = she

Verbs

Häskä verbs are highly inflected; they inflect for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and gender agreement.

Verb template: negative-gender/mood-tense/aspect-⟨voice⟩ROOT

Verbs are negated with: di-

Gender

• wə- = feminine

Mood

• ku- = cohortative

Aspect

Aspect inflection uses a combination of prefixes and reduplication.

Reduplicant uses 1st consonant (F) or last consonant (L)

• imperfective/stative = unmarked
• perfective = unmarked for some verbs but marked with em- for others
• prospective = hef- (closest equivalent of future tense)
• momentane = bla-
• progressive = ăL-
• gnomic = FăL-
• frequentative = eNFă-
• inchoative/inceptive = oLă-
• graduative = tăFa-

Intensive

• twə- = intensive prefix

Voice affixes

Voice affixes are obsolete in Rhythoed.

• ‹ăc› = Dynamic passive
• ‹ră›, ‹wă› = Stative passive
• ‹ăb› = Reflexive
• ‹ăn/ăng› = Applicative trigger
• ‹ith› = Locative trigger
• ‹ăw› = Instrumental trigger
• ‹ăfong› = Destination trigger
• ‹ălis› = Comitative trigger
• ‹ăm› = Source/cause trigger
• ‹ăchem› = Benefactive/purpose trigger
• ‹ărea› = Malefactive trigger

Derivational morphology

• yə- = adjectivizer