Re: OT: Star Trek (was RE: Star Trek)

On 5/19/06, Jean-François Colson <fa597525@...> wrote:
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> From: "Joseph B." <darkmoonman@...>
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> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 7:04 AM
> Subject: OT: Star Trek (was RE: Star Trek)
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> > >Is there really a human language somewhere on the planet
> >>that's OVS?  Where?   How widely spoken?
> >
> > Hixkaryana, a Carib language language spoken by about 500 people in Brasil.
> > Guarijio, an Uto-Aztecan language spoken by about 5000 in northern Mexico.
Panare, also in Brazil, is said to be OVS.

> Occasionally Esperanto. For example here is a phrase I remember from Kajto's CD Procesio
> Multkolora:
> La momenton de retiriĝo (object) devas scii (verb) la ludist (subject)
> But does that count? Eo has a rather free word order.
Occasional OVS sentences in free-word order languages don't
count.   I think the original poster was asking about langauges
whose normal, unmarked word order is OVS.

I've noticed a fair number of OVS and OSV, and VOS sentences in
NT Greek, as well as in Esperanto, but they seem to be
arranged that way for special emphasis.

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/gzb/gzb.htm