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Multilinguo@multilinguo@mastodon.social (2026-07-25 03:31:55)
Which word order wins? Depends on what you count.

By language (~1,377 documented):
- SOV wins at 41% (Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Hindi)
- SVO second at 35% (English, Spanish, French, Swahili)
- VSO third at 7% (Welsh, Arabic, Māori)

By speakers, SVO wins at ~55%, SOV drops to ~30%, VSO ~3%.

Plus ~14% no dominant order (Russian, Latin reorder freely). Rare: VOS Malagasy, OVS Hixkaryana, OSV Xavante.

#Linguistics #Typology
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