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 | |
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Kinamigin | |
Native to | Philippines |
Region | Camiguin |
Native speakers | 27,000 (2000 census)[1] |
Austronesian
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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: Still, great high-powered CPU, the IO is actually pretty decent, and the extra RAM is nice.
gollark: Oh, and their official case has terrible cooling.
gollark: The micro-HDMI outputs are kind of bad.
gollark: My main problem with it is the bad video output and their continued DRM-y cameras.
gollark: šŖ
References
- Kamigin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarstrƶm, 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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