Häskä

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Häskä

Created by	IlL
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Language family	Lakovic Häskä
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Häskä /hæskæ/ is a Lakovic language with an Amharic-inspired aesthetic. Modern Häskä is Tricin's lingua franca, and is official in the USB, Tumhan and Fyxoom.

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/
Stop	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 Fyxoomian 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