Template:Language word order frequency
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| 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% | Warao | |
| S-V1-O-etc-V2 | "She can him without caste-regulation love[1]" | 0% | German | |
| S-V1-O-V2-etc | "She can him love without caste-regulation[2][3][4][5][6][7]" | 0% | Afrikaans, French, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Dutch | |
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References
- ↑ "sie kann ihn ohne kastenregelung lieben".
- ↑ "sy kan hom liefhê sonder kaste-regulering".
- ↑ "elle peut l'aimer sans règlement de caste".
- ↑ "hun kan elske ham uden caste-regulering".
- ↑ "hän vol rakastaa häntä ilman kastiasetusta".
- ↑ "hun kan elske ham uten kastregulering".
- ↑ "ze kan van hem houden zonder kaste-regulatie".
- ↑ 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.