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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, 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
Frequency distribution of word order in languages surveyed by Russell S. Tomlin in 1980s[8][9]
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References

  1. "sie kann ihn ohne kastenregelung lieben".
  2. "sy kan hom liefhê sonder kaste-regulering".
  3. "elle peut l'aimer sans règlement de caste".
  4. "hun kan elske ham uden caste-regulering".
  5. "hän vol rakastaa häntä ilman kastiasetusta".
  6. "hun kan elske ham uten kastregulering".
  7. "ze kan van hem houden zonder kaste-regulatie".
  8. Meyer, Charles F. (2010). Introducing English Linguistics International (Student ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  9. Tomlin, Russell S. (1986). Basic Word Order: Functional Principles. London: Croom Helm. p. 22. ISBN 9780709924999. OCLC 13423631.