Häskä

Häskä/Wordlist

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

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

Gibberish

Pärtətəlič 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 ü /ɑ e i o u æ ə y/

Stress

Stress is usually penultimate.

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 -hu (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.

Classical Häskä: Austronesian alignment?

Modern Häskä number markers:

• sä = singular
• ma = plural
• hän = collective

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: gender/mood-tense/aspect-⟨voice⟩ROOT

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