Häskä

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Häskä
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SettingVerse:Tricin
Lakovic
  • Häskä
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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:

  • = 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-voiceROOT

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