Iwwai

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The Iwwai (Iwwai: Iwwai-run /íw.wai̯.rũ/ lit. 'The Iwwai nation'), officially the Kezotoburo (lit. 'Ten Noble Clans'), are an Iwwaic-speaking subnational confederacy in the Lhiqlhàn Archipelago in Qonklaks.

Names

The Iwwai are associated with a number of names.

Iwwai-run

Iwwai-run is a term that refers to the Iwwai ethnicity. This is the official term recognized by Qonklaks to refer to the Iwwai people.

Iwwai-dokoroi

Iwwai-dokoroi is also a term that refers to the Iwwai ethnicity, but uses the native root tokoroi 'people, nation' instead of the Quonco-Iwwai root run. This version has nationalist tendencies, and are associated with right-leaning Iwwai groups. Although the term is frowned upon by the government, its usage is not inherently banned.

Kezotoburo

Kezotoburo is the term that represents the polity that represented the Iwwai at the founding of the Union of Democratic Revolutionary Qonklaks. The Kezotoburo is recognized as a subnational confederacy within the Union.

Sottaza-jirige

Sottaza-jirige is a calque of the Qonklese term lhiqlhàn 'twelve', referring to the twelve islands of the Lhiqlhàn Archipelago. This term is considered dated, reserved for poetic usage.