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| style="text-align:center;" |[[Verb–subject–object|VSO]] || "Loves she him." || style="text-align:right;" |{{bartable| 9|%}}
 
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Verb–subject–object|VSO]] || "Loves she him." || style="text-align:right;" |{{bartable| 9|%}}
| [[Biblical Hebrew|Biblical Hebrew]], [[Classical Arabic]], [[Irish language|Irish]], [[Filipino language|Filipino]], [[Tuareg languages|Tuareg-Berber]], [[Welsh language|Welsh]]
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| [[Biblical Hebrew|Biblical Hebrew]], [[Arabic]], [[Irish language|Irish]], [[Filipino language|Filipino]], [[Tuareg languages|Tuareg-Berber]], [[Welsh language|Welsh]]
 
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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|%}}

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Word
order
English
equivalent
Proportion
of languages
Example
languages
SOV "She him loves." 45% 45
 
Proto-Indo-European, Sanskrit, Hindi, Ancient Greek, Latin, Japanese, Korean
SVO "She loves him." 42% 42
 
Cantonese, English, French, Hausa, Italian, Malay, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish
VSO "Loves she him." 9% 9
 
Biblical Hebrew, Arabic, Irish, Filipino, Tuareg-Berber, Welsh
VOS "Loves him she." 3% 3
 
Malagasy, Baure, Proto-Austronesian
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.