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Revision as of 06:03, 5 January 2020
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Created by | IlL |
Setting | Verse:Tricin |
Lakovic
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Häskä (düluto Häskäs /dyluto hæskæs/) is a Lakovic language with an Amharic- and Proto-Uralic-inspired aesthetic.
Gibberish
- Ha bärtətəlič žə-sgəδo i ftero 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 | ||
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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 -o (after C) or -s (after V) 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:
- sumäto /sumæto/ = wind
- sumätok /sumætok/ = winds
Case markers
Here are the basic case markers:
- id, i = nominative
- u = accusative
- kə = genitive
- mi = locative
- žə = "like"
Pronouns
- ri = I
- šen = thou (m)
- šes = thou (f)
- fin = he
- fis = she
- bäñ = we two (inc.)
- nə-ri etc. = plural pronouns
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