Kamigin language
| Kamigin | |
|---|---|
| Kinamigin | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Camiguin |
Native speakers | 27,000 (2000 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
mkx |
| Glottolog |
cina1236[2] |
The Kamigin language, Kinamigin (Cinamiguin, Quinamiguin) is a Manobo language spoken on the island of Camiguin in the Philippines. It is declining as most inhabitants have shifted to Cebuano.
Grammar
Ethnologue lists the following grammatical features for Kinamigin.
- VOS, VSO word order
- prepositions
- genitives after noun heads
- articles, adjectives, and numerals before noun heads
- relatives after noun heads
- question word in sentence-initial position
- word order distinguishes subjects, objects and indirect objects in some structures, word order distinguishes given and new information, topic and comment
- affixes do not indicate case of noun phrases
- verb affixes mark number
- passives
- causatives
- comparatives
References
- ↑ Kamigin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Cinamiguin Manobo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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