VSO languages
| From: | Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 24, 2000, 14:55 |
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In a message dated 2000/04/24 02:20:16 PM, Ray.Brown wrote:
>>Approximately how many VSO languages are there all told?
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>Does anyone know? Are there other examples besides the Celtic & Semitic
>languages? I guess there probably are.
10-15% of the world's languages are VSO (i.e. Welsh, Hawaii'an, Classical
Arabic,
Tongan, Squamish, Berber, etc. - quite a few isolate languages, I imagine)
[sources of info: Rick Morneau, David Crystal]
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