The Kamigin language, ''Kinamigin'' (Quinamiguin) is a Manobo language spoken on the island of

Camiguin Camiguin, officially the Province of Camiguin ( ceb, Probinsya sa Camiguin; tl, Lalawigan ng Camiguin; Kamigin: ''Probinsya ta Kamigin''), is an island province in the Philippines located in the Bohol Sea, about off the northern coast of Min ...

in the

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

. It is declining as most inhabitants have shifted to Cebuano.

Grammar

'' Ethnologue'' lists the following grammatical features for Kinamigin. *VOS, VSO word order * prepositions *

genitive In grammar, the genitive case ( abbreviated ) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun. A genitive can ...

s 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 phrase In linguistics, a noun phrase, or nominal (phrase), is a phrase that has a noun or pronoun as its head or performs the same grammatical function as a noun. Noun phrases are very common cross-linguistically, and they may be the most frequently o ...

s *verb affixes mark number * passives *

causative In linguistics, a causative ( abbreviated ) is a valency-increasing operationPayne, Thomas E. (1997). Describing morphosyntax: A guide for field linguists'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 173–186. that indicates that a subject either ...

s *

comparative general linguistics, the comparative is a syntactic construction that serves to express a comparison between two (or more) entities or groups of entities in quality or degree - see also comparison (grammar) for an overview of comparison, as well ...

References

Manobo languages Languages of Camiguin {{GCPhilippine-lang-stub