Re: Skälansk - History and Babel text

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 20:08:49 +0000, Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...> wrote:
> Ray Brown wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, December 7, 2004, at 07:36 , Philip Newton wrote:
> >
> >> I think OSV is the rarest word order, with few known natlangs using it.
> >
> > Yes, I think it is. Somewhere I have some statistics on this but I can't
> > find them. From what I remember OS order languages are far less common
> > than the SO langs, irrespective of where the verb is. IIRC the most common
> > words orders are SVO and SOV (and I cannot remember which comes 'top') -
> > but in 3rd place comes VSO languages.
>
> The joy of the archives:
>
> http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0308d&L=conlang&F=&S=&P=5853
Interesting! My "OSV" was typo for "OVS" (as in Klingon), but it turns
out that OSV is indeed rarer than OVS :)

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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