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