Template:Language_word_order_frequency
Template:Language word order frequency
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| Word order | English equivalent | Proportion of languages | Example languages | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOV | "Cows grass eat." | 45% | 45 |
Ancient Greek, Bengali, Burmese, Hindi/Urdu, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Oromo, Persian, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, etc |
| SVO | "Cows eat grass." | 42% | 42 |
Chinese, English, French, Hausa, Hebrew, Arabic, Italian, Malay, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Vietnamese, etc |
| VSO | "Eat cows grass." | 9% | 9 |
Biblical Hebrew, Classical Arabic, Filipino, Geʽez, Irish, Māori, Tuareg-Berber, Welsh |
| VOS | "Eat grass cows." | 3% | 3 |
Car, Fijian, Malagasy, Qʼeqchiʼ, Terêna |
| OVS | "Grass eat cows." | 1% | 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] () | ||||
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- 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.