Template:Language word order frequency
Appearance
Order | Example | Usage | Languages | |
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SOV | "Cows grass eat." | 45% | Bengali, Burmese, Hindustani, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Malayalam, Oromo, Persian, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Nepali | |
SVO | "Cows eat grass." | 42% | Arabic (modern spoken varieties), Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hausa, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Portuguese, Spanish, Standard Average European, Swahili, Thai, Vietnamese | |
VSO | "Eat cows grass." | 9% | Modern Standard Arabic | |
VOS | "Eat grass cows." | 3% | Car, Fijian, Malagasy, Qʼeqchiʼ, Terêna | |
OVS | "Grass eat cows." | 1% | Hixkaryana, Urarina | |
OSV | "Grass cows eat." | 0% | Tobati, Warao | |
Frequency distribution of word order in languages surveyed by Russell S. Tomlin in the 1980s[1][2] ( ) |
References
[edit]- ^ Meyer, Charles F. (2010). Introducing English Linguistics (Student ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Tomlin, Russell S. (1986). Basic Word Order: Functional Principles. London: Croom Helm. p. 22. ISBN 9780709924999. OCLC 13423631.