Ezu

General Information
Ezu (natively Ezyun shüfü [ə́zjūn ʃỳfȳ], lit. "language to the Ezu")

Phonotactics
(C)V(n, f, s, z, ʃ, ħ, ɺ)
 * minimal syllable: ǘ /ý/ "or"
 * maximal syllable: jï̀n /dzɯ̀n/ "the berry"

Tone
There are merely three tonemes: high start, mid start, and low start. They each tend to surface as contour tones from the tone of the current syllable to the tone of the following syllable.
 * ex. íkxǜ /ík’ỳ/ [i˥˩k’y˩] "the symbol"

Declension
Nouns decline for three numbers (singular, dual, and plural) and five cases (absolutive, nominative, genitive-dative, ablative, and locative).

Nominative
If a noun ends in a low tone, raise it to a high tone. Otherwise, some nouns receive an ending -na and others replace any final vowel with -á and flip all other tones.

Genitive-Dative
ending -(e)n

Ablative
ending -(e)sh

Syntax
Word order is Topic-comment, Verb-final, and strictly left-branching.