Häskä

Häskä/Wordlist

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

Häskä (dəluto Häskäs /dəluto hæskæs/) is a Lakovic language with an Amharic- and Uralic-inspired aesthetic.

Gibberish

Ha bärtətəlič žə-sgəδo i ftero mi-sumätäk!

ah PRES-FREQ-fall like-gold-F DIR foliage-F in wind-PL

Ah! How leaves fall like gold in the wind!

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/			ñ /ŋ/
Stop	plain		t /t/			k /k/	' /ʔ/
	voiced	b /b/	d /d/			g /g/
Fricative	plain	f /f/	s /s/	š			h /h/
	voiced		δ /ð/	ž
Affricate			c /ts/	č
Approximant		w /w/	r /r/, l /l/		y /j/

In addition, p /p/ is used in loanwords.

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 -o (after C) or -s (after V) are feminine. Inanimate nouns, and animals that are not dedicated words for males and females, can be used in both genders interchangeably.

Plurals

Unusually for a Lakovic language, plurals are formed with a suffix -k or -äk:

• sumät /sumæt/ = wind
  • sumätäk /sumætæk/ = winds

If the word is treated as feminine:

• sumäto /sumæto/ = wind
  • sumätok /sumætok/ = winds

Case markers

Here are the basic case markers:

• id, i = nominative
• u = accusative
• kə = genitive
• mi = locative
• žə = "like"

Pronouns

• ri = I
• šen = thou (m)
• šes = thou (f)
• fin = he
• fis = she
• bäñ = we two (inc.)
• nə-ri etc. = plural pronouns

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-.

Derivational morphology

• yə- = adjectivizer