Kamigin language
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.
| Kamigin | |
|---|---|
| Kinamigin | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Camiguin |
Native speakers | 27,000 (2000 census)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mkx |
| Glottolog | cina1236[2] |
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
gollark: Really? Hmmm.
gollark: You want arrow keys and backspace and such, no?
gollark: It does arrow key handling.
gollark: No, I mean readline, the library.
gollark: Is this for an interactive REPL? Why no readline?
References
- Kamigin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Cinamiguin Manobo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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