Manobo, Kinamiging

MKX

threatened

Alternate Names: Cinamiguin, Kamigin, Kinamigin, Kinamiguin, Manobo, Cinamiguin

Genealogy:

Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Philippine
Greater Central Philippine
Manobo
North

Demographics: 26,700 (2000 census).

Language Use: Also use Cebuano [ceb].

Typology: VOS, VSO; 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; CV, CVC, CVV, CCV; nontonal.

Nation of Origin: Philippines