Marakaian language

Marakaian language (Nabaqau Maraka) is an endangered Gawudzanian language today spoken by the Marakaians in central Xiang.

The language is known as Nabaqau by the native speakers, which comes from the root n-b-q, which has something to do with 'mouth'.

Grammar
Marakaian is an OVS language, following an object-verb-subject order. The language has three types of words, nouns, clitics, verbs, and gendered words, which are called ra'ami. Ra'ami are often used for titles and certain words. In Marakaian, words that refer to hard objects are masculine, and words that refer to soft objects are feminine.

When words are timed, past tense would have a root always having the 'e' sound, also starting with that specific sound, (epepec; ate; p-p-c is the root related to food), and future tense would have a root first beginning with an 'a' sound, then the rest of the vowels being 'o' (arongo; will fly; r-ng is the root related to flying). Marakaian does not have a present tense, and words referring to present-time rely with their past tenses ending with -aq (epepecaq; eneraq; eyekengaq).

Words are formed in Marakaian when the vowels fill a specific root, except when some words borrowed from another language.