1. Family: Austronesian
  2. Genus: Northern Philippines

Ilocano

WALS coordinates: 16° N, 121° E

spoken in Philippines

Find examples here.

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Ilokano
Routledge:
  • Ilokano
Other:
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
27A Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication Morphology
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46A Indefinite Pronouns Generic-noun-based Nominal Categories
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49A Number of Cases No morphological case-marking Nominal Categories
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50A Asymmetrical Case-Marking Additive-quantitatively asymmetrical Nominal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb VS Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective No dominant order Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN Word Order
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118A Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding Simple Clauses
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119A Nominal and Locational Predication Different Simple Clauses
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120A Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible Simple Clauses
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121A Comparative Constructions Particle Simple Clauses
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129A Hand and Arm Identical Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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142A Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks Affective meanings Other
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