Häskä

Häskä/Wordlist

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

Häskä (dülut Häskä /dʉlut hæskæ/; modern: sä dülut Häskä Bjeheond: [sɛ dʉlut hɛskɛ]; Fəxom: [sa dʉlut haska]) is a Lakovic language with an Amharic-inspired aesthetic. Modern Häskä is Tricin's lingua franca, and is official in the USB, Tumhan and Fəxom.

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 in Bjeheondian Häskä, ä-a merger in Fəxomese Häskä

Morphology

Nouns

Häska nouns are either masculine or feminine. The feminine marker is -s or -əs.

Classical Häskä: Austronesian alignment?

Modern Häskä number markers:

• sä = singular
• ta = plural
• hän = collective

Verbs

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

Derivational morphology

• yə- = adjectivizer