Häskä
Häskä | |
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Created by | IlL |
Setting | Verse:Tricin |
Lakovic
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Häskä (dülutu Häskäsu /dylutu hæskæsu/) is a Lakovic language with an Amharic-inspired aesthetic.
Gibberish
Bärtətəlič o sgəzu kə-fteru mi-sumätäk!
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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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-pluractional
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