Template:Language word order frequency
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Order | Example | Usage | Languages | |
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SOV | "Cows grass eat." | 45% | 45 |
Bengali, Burmese, Hindustani, Japanese, Korean, Oromo, Persian, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish |
SVO | "Cows eat grass." | 42% | 42 |
Chinese, Hausa, Hebrew (modern), Arabic (modern spoken varieties), Malay, Swahili, Thai, Vietnamese, Standard Average European, etc |
VSO | "Eat cows grass." | 9% | 9 |
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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