Häskä

Häskä/Wordlist

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

Häskä (dülut(u) Häskä(su) /dylut(u) hæskæs(u)/) is a Lakovic language with an Amharic- and Proto-Uralic-inspired aesthetic.

Gibberish

Ha bärtətəlič žə-sgəδu i fteru mi-sumätäk!

ah PRES-FREQ-fall like-gold-F DIR foliage-F in wind-PL

Ah! How leaves fall like gold in the wind!

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/			ñ /ŋ/
Stop	plain		t /t/			k /k/	' /ʔ/
	voiced	b /b/	d /d/			g /g/
Fricative	plain	f /f/	s /s/	š	ś		h /h/
	voiced		δ /ð/	ž	ź
Affricate			c /ts/	č	ć
Approximant		w /w/	r /r/, l /l/		y /j/

In addition, p /p/ is used in loanwords.

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

Unusually for a Lakovic language, plurals are formed with a suffix -k or -äk:

• sumät /sumæt/ = wind
  • sumätäk /sumætæk/ = winds

If the word is treated as feminine:

• sumätu /sumætu/ = wind
  • sumätäku /sumætæku/ = winds

Case markers

Häskä has Austronesian alignment, like Proto-Lakovic.

Here are the basic case markers:

• id = direct
• u = indirect
• kə = genitive
• mi = locative
• žə = "like"

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-pluractional

Verbs are negated with di-.

Derivational morphology

• yə- = adjectivizer