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Yen is an a priori conlang which is mostly agglutinative and somewhat isolating. It combines features from many languages:

• the way words are built from roots is inspired by Afro-Asiatic (mainly Chadic) languages such as Hausa, but also Amharic, Arabic and Berber-languages
• the serial verb constructions are heavily influenced by West-African
  languages such as Yoruba, Ewe, Twi and creole derivatives from the Caribbean from these languages
• the intention of the deictic system is modelled after Armenian, it's shape
  (infixes) are inspired by polysynthetic languages such as Quecha, Turkish
  and many Native American languages
• its phonology is designed after Bantu-languages such as Swahili and very minimalistic to regain optimal pronouncability
• the tonal structure (such as set patterns that can spread out over an
  entire word) behaves like East-African systems rather than the more
  contricting Chinese system which confines tonal patterns to one syllable
• word order is based on creole languages and very sensitive for topicalization
  as found in Kwa-languanges and Mandarin Chinese
• the morphemes expressing mood and other exclamations are inspired by such
  words in Lojban, Zoinx and other conlangs
• the idea of the intensive form is the result of merging the habitual as
  found in Kwa-languages with repetitive, finitive and intensive meaning
• the tense system is based upon Modern Hebrew

Furthermore, I made an attempt to combine phonological processes such as
tone, (pre)nasalization and other values with morphological
processes.

The roman script is based upon the principles of legibility and recognizability.
The Yen script itself is designed to express tone, interpunction and uppercase 
without all those annoying diacretical symbols roman scripts force us to use.