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Re: Skälansk - History and Babel text

From:Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 20:09
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.
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