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 Mák'ai language | Featured conlang
 Cultural groups of the Pan-Ejawan language family. Note Makaiganic is the cultural group in which Mák'ai-wa is spoken. Author: Javants
Project: Project Exodus
Region: Central Ejawe
Language family: Pan-Ejawan
Summary: The Mák’ai language, or Mák'ai-wa ( ,  /mákʼɐ̀ɪwɐ̀/ (help·info), literally 'people's language'), sometimes anglicised as Mak'ai or Makkai is a Pan-Ejawan language spoken in central Ejawe, predominantly on the island of Makaigan. It is the national language of Mák’ai where it is spoken by approximately TBD million people, although significant groups of Mák’ai-speakers also exist outside of Mák’ai proper. Traditionally, Mák’ai was also an important regional language as the language of the political elite in many countries under the political and/or military influence of Mák’ai, although gradually came to be subsumed by Coastal Makaigan as a trade language. Nowadays, although not as widely spoken outside of Mák’ai as it once was, the influence of Mák’ai-wa on neighbouring languages may still be found, primarily through loan words and borrowings.
Modern Mák’ai-wa is a polysynthetic language that implements split ergativity and is characterised by complex verbal morphology, the use of noun classifiers, and a relatively strict VSO sentence structure. Sentences consist at a minimum of an unconjugated lexical verb and a highly-inflected auxiliary verb, which is marked for person, number, tense, aspect, modality, evidentiality, and, to a certain extent, degree.
As a Pan-Ejawan language, Mák’ai-wa shares a number of demonstrable geneological similarities with other Ejawan languages, in particular the Raa-Makaiganic languages of western Ejawe. During the ancient Mák’ai period, Mák’ai-wa began to split off from Proto-Raa-Makaiganic in isolation on the island of Makaigan, forming Proto-Makaiganic. After the settlement of the Mák’ai people near what is today Mkái-t̗ar̗, Mák’ai-wa came to be steadily influenced by the neighbouring Ktoic languages, in particular Kto. During this period the Mák’ai both adopted the Kto writing script and concurrently developed Mák’ai logographs, themselves derived from earlier divination practices. (more...)
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