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  2. Word order - Wikipedia

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    SOV is the order used by the largest number of distinct languages; languages using it include Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Turkish, the Indo-Aryan languages and the Dravidian languages. Some, like Persian , Latin and Quechua , have SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) normal word order but conform less to the general tendencies of other such languages.

  3. Object–subject–verb word order - Wikipedia

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    pineapple nota I apa fetch anana nota apa pineapple I fetch I fetch a pineapple British Sign Language (BSL) normally uses topic–comment structure, but its default word order when topic–comment structure is not used is OSV. Marked word order This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged ...

  4. Verb–subject–object word order - Wikipedia

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    In languages with V2 word order, such as most Germanic languages except for Modern English, as well as Ingush and Oʼodham, the verb is always the second element in a main clause. The subject precedes the verb by default, but if another word or phrase is put at the front of the clause, the subject is moved to the position immediately after the ...

  5. Verb–object–subject word order - Wikipedia

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    VOS word order is the fourth-most-common of the world's languages, [1] and is considered to have verb-initial word order, like VSO. Very few languages have a fixed VOS word order, most primarily in the Austronesian and Mayan language families. [3] Many verb-initial languages exhibit a flexible word order (such as St’át’imcets, Chamorro ...

  6. Gugyeol - Wikipedia

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    The parts of the Chinese sentence would then be read in Korean out of sequence to approximate Korean rather than Chinese word order. A similar system for reading Classical Chinese is still used in Japan and is known as kanbun kundoku. Gugyeol is derived from the cursive and simplified style of Chinese characters.

  7. Object–verb–subject word order - Wikipedia

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    In the last example, it is highly unlikely that fish is the subject and so that word order can be used. In some languages, auxiliary rules of word order can provide enough disambiguation for an emphatic use of OVS. For example, declarative statements in Danish are ordinarily SVnO, with "n" being is the position of negating or modal adverbs ...

  8. Korean grammar - Wikipedia

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    The choice of whether to use a Sino-Korean noun or a native Korean word is a delicate one, with the Sino-Korean alternative often sounding more profound or refined. It is in much the same way that Latin- or French-derived words in English are used in higher-level vocabulary sets (e.g. the sciences), thus sounding more refined – for example ...

  9. Kogi people - Wikipedia

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    The Kogi (/ ˈ k oʊ ɡ i / KOH-gee), or Cogui, or Kágaba, meaning "jaguar" in the Kogi language, [2] are an indigenous group that resides in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains in northern Colombia. Their culture has continued since the Pre-Columbian era.