Kamigin language

Kamigin
Kinamigin
Native to	Philippines
Region	Camiguin
Native speakers	(27,000 cited 2000 census)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Manobo North Kamigin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mkx
Glottolog	cina1236

The Kamigin language, Kinamigin (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 Kinamiging.

• 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