Bikol

WALS coordinates: 13° 20′ N, 123° 30′ E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Fixed Stress Locations	No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress	Right-edge: Ultimate or penultimate
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems	Lexical stress
Rhythm Types	Trochaic
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Little affixation
Reduplication	Productive full and partial reduplication
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural word
Position of Case Affixes	No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Comitatives and Instrumentals	Identity
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Mixed type
Word Order
Order of Subject and Verb	VS
Order of Object and Verb	VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	No dominant order
Order of Adjective and Noun	No dominant order
Order of Degree Word and Adjective	Adjective-Degree word
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause	Initial subordinator word
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	VO and Prepositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	Other
Lexicon
Hand and Arm	Different
Finger and Hand	Different