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| style="text-align:center;" |[[Subject–object–verb|SOV]] || "She him loves." || style="text-align:right;" |{{bartable|45|%}}
 
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Subject–object–verb|SOV]] || "She him loves." || style="text-align:right;" |{{bartable|45|%}}
|[[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]], [[Sanskrit]], [[Hindi]], [[Ancient Greek]], [[Latin]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]], [[Korean language|Korean]]
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|[[Sanskrit]], [[Hindi]], [[Ancient Greek]], [[Latin]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]], [[Korean language|Korean]]
 
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| style="text-align:center;" |[[Subject–verb–object|SVO]] || "She loves him." || style="text-align:right;" |{{bartable|42|%}}
 
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Subject–verb–object|SVO]] || "She loves him." || style="text-align:right;" |{{bartable|42|%}}
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| style="text-align:center;" |[[Verb–object–subject|VOS]] || "Loves him she." || style="text-align:right;" |{{bartable| 3|%}}
 
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Verb–object–subject|VOS]] || "Loves him she." || style="text-align:right;" |{{bartable| 3|%}}
| [[Malagasy language|Malagasy]], [[Baure language|Baure]], [[Proto-Austronesian language|Proto-Austronesian]]
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| [[Malagasy language|Malagasy]], [[Baure language|Baure]]
 
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| style="text-align:center;" |[[Object–verb–subject|OVS]] || "Him loves she." || style="text-align:right;" |{{bartable| 1|%}}
 
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Object–verb–subject|OVS]] || "Him loves she." || style="text-align:right;" |{{bartable| 1|%}}
| [[Apalaí language|Apalaí]], [[Hixkaryana language|Hixkaryana]], [[Klingon language|tlhIngan Hol]]
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| [[Apalaí language|Apalaí]], [[Hixkaryana language|Hixkaryana]]
 
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| style="text-align:center;" |[[Object–subject–verb|OSV]] || "Him she loves." || style="text-align:right;" |{{bartable| 0|%}}
 
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Object–subject–verb|OSV]] || "Him she loves." || style="text-align:right;" |{{bartable| 0|%}}

Revision as of 21:25, 15 January 2019

Word
order
English
equivalent
Proportion
of languages
Example
languages
SOV "She him loves." 45% 45
 
Sanskrit, Hindi, Ancient Greek, Latin, Japanese, Korean
SVO "She loves him." 42% 42
 
Chinese, English, French, Hausa, Italian, Malay, Russian, Spanish
VSO "Loves she him." 9% 9
 
Biblical Hebrew, Arabic, Irish, Filipino, Tuareg-Berber, Welsh
VOS "Loves him she." 3% 3
 
Malagasy, Baure
OVS "Him loves she." 1% 1
 
Apalaí, Hixkaryana
OSV "Him she loves." 0% Warao
Frequency distribution of word order in languages surveyed by Russell S. Tomlin in 1980s[1][2]
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References

  1. Meyer, Charles F. (2010). Introducing English Linguistics International (Student ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  2. Tomlin, Russell S. (1986). Basic Word Order: Functional Principles. London: Croom Helm. p. 22. ISBN 9780709924999. OCLC 13423631.