Template:Language word order frequency
| Order |
Example |
Usage |
Languages
|
| SOV |
"Sam apples ate." |
45%
|
45
|
Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Ainu, Amharic, Ancient Greek, Akkadian, Armenian, Avar, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bambara, Basque, Bengali, Burmese, Burushaski, Chukchi, Elamite, Hindustani, Hittite, Hopi, Itelmen, Japanese, Kabardian, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lhasa Tibetan, Malayalam, Manchu, Mongolian, Navajo, Nepali, Nivkh, Oromo, Pali, Pashto, Persian, Quechua, Sanskrit, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Tigrinya, Turkish, Yukaghir
|
| SVO |
"Sam ate apples." |
42%
|
42
|
Arabic (modern spoken varieties), Chinese, most European languages, Hausa, Hebrew, Indonesian, Kashmiri, Malay, Swahili, Thai, Vietnamese
|
| VSO |
"Ate Sam apples." |
9%
|
9
|
Arabic (classical and modern standard), Berber languages, Biblical Hebrew, Celtic languages, Filipino, Geʽez, Kariri, Polynesian languages
|
| VOS |
"Ate apples Sam." |
3%
|
3
|
Algonquian languages, Arawakan languages, Car, Chumash, Fijian, Malagasy, Mayan languages, Otomanguean languages, Qʼeqchiʼ, Salishan languages, Terêna
|
| OVS |
"Apples ate Sam." |
1%
|
1
|
Äiwoo, Hixkaryana, Urarina
|
| OSV |
"Apples Sam ate." |
0%
|
|
Tobati, Warao, Haida
|
| Frequency distribution of word order in languages surveyed by Russell S. Tomlin in the 1980s[1][2] ()
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