Elimyen

Elimyen is an agglutinative conlang.

Phonology

Elimyen is written using an abugida script (an abugida is a script where each character represents a consonant and vowel together). There are characters for each consonant-vowel pair (and lone vowel) below, except for 'du', 'tu' and 'yi', which do not appear in the language. There is also some overlap between s/z and dh/th, which are considered individual phonemes. The absence of a vowel following a consonant is indicated explicitly.

Consonants

Letter	IPA symbol(s)
b	b
d	d
dh	ð
g	ɡ
j	dʒ
k	k
l	l
m	m
n	n
p	p
r	ɹ, ɻ
s	s
sh	ʃ
t	t
th	θ
v	v
y	j
z	z

Consonants

Letter	IPA symbol(s)
a	æ, ɑ
e	ɛ
i	i
o	ɒ
u	ʌ, ʊ

Grammar

Word order and stress

Elimyen's word order is Subject Object Verb. Unlike English, Elimyen uses Time Manner Place to order adpositional phrases. For example, instead of saying "I went to the shop yesterday", it would be "I went yesterday to the shop".

Normally, the second syllable of a word is stressed.

Declension

Elimyen has 6 cases:

• Nominative- Not marked
• Accusative- Marked by "-mol"
• Dative- Marked by "-dash"
• Genitive- Marked by "-yen"
• Locative- Marked by "-von"
• Ablative- Marked by "-nim"

Plurals

Plurals are suffixed by "-yez". It is also used as a sign of respect to the person being spoken to.

Verbs

Verbs are inflected to distinguish between transitive, ditransitive, and intransitive verbs:

• Transitive- Not marked
• Ditransitive- Marked by "se-"
• Intransitive- Marked by "go-"

Grammatical person

• First person singular- "ben"
• First person plural- "bizi"
• Second person singular- "sen"
• Second person plural/formal- "zizi"
• Third person (singular and plural)- "on"

There are no grammatical genders.

Negatives

To negate a noun or adjective, the word "deye" is added to the end of the sentence. Verbs are negated by adding the prefix "me-".