1. Family: Austronesian
  2. Subfamily: Western Malayo-Polynesian
  3. Genus: Southern Philippines

Manobo (Western Bukidnon)

WALS coordinates: 7° 40′ N, 124° 45′ E

spoken in Philippines

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Western Bukidnon
Routledge:
  • West Bukidnon Manobo
Other:
  • Bukidnon,
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strong prefixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word
Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes
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 Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions 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 VO and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Obligatory pronouns in subject position
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
Polar Questions Question particle
Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
Nominal and Locational Predication Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Identical
Finger and Hand Different