Burmese language (category Subject–object–verb languages)
syllable-timed language, largely monosyllabic and agglutinative with a subject–object–verb word order. It is a member of the Lolo-Burmese grouping of the Sino-Tibetan...
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Chewa language (section Verb extensions)
going' (class 13) An object-marker can also optionally be added to the verb; if one is added it goes immediately before the verb-stem. The 2nd person...
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Southern Sámi (category Subject–object–verb languages)
Southern Sámi has the basic structure SOV (Subject-Object.-Verb). Only the copula ('to be') and auxiliary verbs appear second. The case alignment system...
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Malagasy language (category Verb–object–subject languages)
elided; thus fanòrona is pronounced [fə̥ˈnurnə̥]. Malagasy has a verb–object–subject (VOS) word order: Mamaky reads boky book ny the mpianatra student...
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Uzbek language (section Verbs)
language is subject–object–verb (SOV), like all other Turkic languages. Unlike in English, the object comes before the verb and the verb is the last element...
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Nynorsk (section Verb conjugation)
meanings. A verb with a weak conjugation as in the section above, will have an object, that is, the weak conjugated verb is transitive. The verb with strong...
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Old Saxon grammar (section Verbs)
their antecedent nouns in case, number, and gender. Finite verbs agreed with their subject in person and number. Nouns came in numerous declensions (with...
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Lule Sámi (section Negative verb)
number (singular, dual and plural). "Fant hemmelighetene i lulesamenes språk" [Found the secrets in the language of the Lule Sami]. Forskning (in Norwegian)...
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Finnish language (category Subject–verb–object languages)
pronouns, numerals and verbs are inflected depending on their role in the sentence. Sentences are normally formed with subject–verb–object word order, although...
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Swedish language (category Subject–verb–object languages)
and German. Like English, Swedish has a subject–verb–object basic word order, but like German it utilizes verb-second word order in main clauses, for instance...
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similarities, such as discarding the Verb-second word order of Standard Swedish, instead using subject–verb–object word order after an adverb or adverbial...
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Norwegian language (category Subject–verb–object languages)
syntax is predominantly SVO. The subject occupies the sentence-initial position, followed by the verb and then the object. Like many other Germanic languages...
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Chittagonian language (category Subject–object–verb languages)
Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Nationalencyklopedin "Världens 100 största språk 2007" The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007 "Chittagonian language and...
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Northern Sámi (category Subject–verb–object languages)
Northern Sámi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) "språk i Norge – Store norske leksikon". 28 February 2024. kirkedepartementet,...
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more predicative characterizing forms with the subject. In syntax, the word order subject-object-verb (SOV) is generally valid; Postpositions are used...
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Gujarati language (category Subject–object–verb languages)
or left-branching language. Adjectives precede nouns, direct objects come before verbs, and there are postpositions. The word order of Gujarati is SOV...
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Faroese language (category Subject–verb–object languages)
Faroese at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Sandøy, H., Frå tre dialektar til tre språk. In: Gunnstein Akselberg og Edit Bugge (red.), Vestnordisk språkkontakt...
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Peterson, Lena (2007). Nordiskt runnamnslexikon. Uppsala: Institutet för språk och folkminnen. Pritsak, Omeljan (1981). The origin of Rus'. Harvard University...
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Zealand English: Origins, Relationships, and Prospects" (PDF). Moderna Språk. 94 (1). Sweden: Linnaeus University: 8–14. doi:10.58221/mosp.v94i1.9625...
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Steensland, Lars; Williams, Henrik (8 February 2007). "Älvdalskan är ett språk – inte en svensk dialekt" [Elfdalian is a language – not a Swedish dialect]...
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Hindi (category Subject–object–verb languages)
structure, is derived from Sanskrit. Mikael Parkvall, "Världens 100 största språk 2007" (The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007), in Nationalencyklopedin...
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Yiddish (category Subject–verb–object languages)
Yiddish) Sten Vikner: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax: Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages. Oxford University Press: New York...
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Wu Chinese (category Subject–verb–object languages)
supplementary sound recordings. Mikael Parkvall, "Världens 100 största språk 2007" (The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007), in Nationalencyklopedin...
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Uppsala: Institutet för språk och folkminnen. Peterson, Lena (2007). Nordiskt runnamnslexikon. Uppsala: Institutet för språk och folkminnen. Poole, Russell...
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Uppsala: Institutet för språk och folkminnen. Peterson, Lena (2007). Nordiskt runnamnslexikon. Uppsala: Institutet för språk och folkminnen. Pritsak,...
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