Is Indonesian SVO or SOV?

Language Comparison Table

Are most languages SOV?

Around 70\%-90\% of the world’s languages use either SOV or SVO. The third-most-common word order is VSO, where you say “Eat I food” and “Kicks he the ball”; if you add this third order, the remaining three word orders (VOS, OVS, OSV) make up less than 5\%. Word orders in descending order of popularity.

What is a SOV language?

e. In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb ( SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that order. If English were SOV, “Sam oranges ate” would be an ordinary sentence, as opposed to the actual Standard English “Sam ate oranges” which is Subject–verb–object ( SVO ).

Which languages are SVO and which are OSV?

Standard Mandarin is generally SVO but common constructions with verbal complements require SOV or OSV. Some Romance languages are SVO, but when the object is an enclitic pronoun, word order allows for SOV (see the examples below). German and Dutch are considered SVO in conventional typology and SOV in generative grammar.

What is SVO word order in English?

The initialism SVO represents the basic word order of main clauses and subordinate clauses in present-day English: Subject + Verb + Object. Compared with many other languages, SVO word order in English (also known as canonical word order) is fairly rigid. Nevertheless, non-canonical word order can be found in a variety of clause types in English.

Is modern English a rigid SVO language?

“Modern English is one of the most consistent rigid SVO languages, at least in terms of its main clause order. Still, it displays variant word-order in several more marked clause-types. a. The boy slept (S-V) b. The man hit the ball (S-V- DO) . . .