1. Family: Austronesian
  2. Subfamily: Western Malayo-Polynesian
  3. Genus: Meso-Philippine

Cebuano

WALS coordinates: 10° N, 124° E

spoken in Philippines

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Cebuano
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Cebuano Visayan,
    • Bisaya Cebuano
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    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 Long vowel or coda consonant
    Rhythm Types Iambic
    Nominal Categories
    Definite Articles No definite, but indefinite article
    Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
    Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th
    Verbal Categories
    Perfective/Imperfective Aspect Grammatical marking
    The Past Tense No past tense
    The Future Tense No inflectional future
    The Perfect No perfect
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Both types of system
    The Optative Inflectional optative absent
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO
    Order of Subject and Verb VS
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    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 Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
    Simple Clauses
    Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
    Predicative Possession Topic
    Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
    Nominal and Locational Predication Different
    Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible
    Comparative Constructions Locational
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Different
    Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha