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Frequency distribution of word order in languages surveyed by Russell S. Tomlin in 1980s[1][2]
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| [[Apalaí language|Apalaí]], [[Hixkaryana language|Hixkaryana]], [[Klingon language|tlhIngan Hol]] | | [[Apalaí language|Apalaí]], [[Hixkaryana language|Hixkaryana]], [[Klingon language|tlhIngan Hol]] | ||
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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|%}} |
| [[Warao language|Warao]] | | [[Warao language|Warao]] | ||
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| − | | style="text-align:center;" |S-V1-O-V2 || "She can him love." || style="text-align:right;" |{{bartable| 0|%}} | + | | style="text-align:center;" |S-V1-O-V2 || "She can him love." || style="text-align:right;" |{{bartable| ~0|%}} |
| [[German_language|German]], [[Afrikaans_language|Afrikaans]] | | [[German_language|German]], [[Afrikaans_language|Afrikaans]] | ||
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Revision as of 06:10, 26 October 2018
| Word order |
English equivalent |
Proportion of languages |
Example languages | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOV | "She him loves." | 45% | Proto-Indo-European, Sanskrit, Hindi, Ancient Greek, Latin, Japanese, Korean | |
| SVO | "She loves him." | 42% | Cantonese, English, French, Hausa, Italian, Malay, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish | |
| VSO | "Loves she him." | 9% | Biblical Hebrew, Arabic, Irish, Filipino, Tuareg-Berber, Welsh | |
| VOS | "Loves him she." | 3% | Malagasy, Baure, Proto-Austronesian | |
| OVS | "Him loves she." | 1% | Apalaí, Hixkaryana, tlhIngan Hol | |
| OSV | "Him she loves." | ~0% | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "~". | Warao |
| S-V1-O-V2 | "She can him love." | ~0% | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "~". | German, Afrikaans |
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References
- ↑ Meyer, Charles F. (2010). Introducing English Linguistics International (Student ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ Tomlin, Russell S. (1986). Basic Word Order: Functional Principles. London: Croom Helm. p. 22. ISBN 9780709924999. OCLC 13423631.