Template:Language word order frequency
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| Word order |
English equivalent |
Proportion of languages |
Example languages |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOV | "She him loves." | 45% |
|
Sanskrit, Latin, Japanese, Ancient Greek, Korean, Hindi, PIE |
| SVO | "She loves him." | 42% |
|
English, Hausa, Mandarin, Russian |
| VSO | "Loves she him." | 9% |
|
Biblical Hebrew, Irish, Filipino, Tuareg |
| VOS | "Loves him she." | 3% |
|
Malagasy, Baure |
| OVS | "Him loves she." | 1% |
|
Apalaí, Hixkaryana |
| OSV | "Him she loves." | 0% | Warao | |
surveyed by Russell S. Tomlin in 1980s[1][2] ( )
References
- ↑ Introducing English Linguistics International Student Edition by Charles F. Meyer
- ↑ Russell Tomlin, "Basic Word Order: Functional Principles", Croom Helm, London, 1986, page 22
