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...[Romance languages|Romance]], [[Germanic languages|Germanic]] and [[Celtic languages|Celtic]] ...ses the [[object–subject–verb]] (OSV) word order, which is rare in natural languages. An interesting feature of Teonaht is that the end of the sentence is the p ...

...within [[English language|English]], [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], and other languages through the use of syntactic inversion for emphasis or rhetorical effect. T ===Natural languages=== ...

.../www.elararchive.org/dk0634/ |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=[[Endangered Languages Archive]]}}</ref> Linguist Jim Kakumasu observed in 1968 that the number of |title=Aboriginal Sign Languages of the Americas and Australia ...

{{Short description|Languages which place objects before verbs}} ...rb]]. OV languages compose approximately forty-seven percent of documented languages.<ref>{{cite journal ...

...order|sequence]] of their [[constituent (linguistics)|constituents]]. OVS languages have a sequence of the constituents that is object–verb–subject such as [[Ä ...for case, are involved or when the roles are clear from context. In those languages, OVS is fairly often used when the object is already marked as the topic of ...

...mes first, the [[verb]] second, and the [[object (grammar)|object]] third. Languages may be classified according to the dominant sequence of these elements in u ...verb|SOV]]. Together, SVO and SOV account for more than 87% of the world's languages.<ref>{{cite book |last=Crystal |first=David |author-link=David Crystal |tit ...

...il 1910, deaf Icelandic people were sent to school in [[Denmark]], but the languages have diverged since then. It is officially recognized by the state and regu ...te=2008|title=A Lexical Comparison of Signs from Icelandic and Danish Sign Languages|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309605902|journal=Sign Languag ...

...rticles such as ''Connaissez-vous le Chinook ?'' ("Do you know [[Chinookan languages|Chinookan]]?"). According to Queneau, right dislocation in Chinookan is com Topicalization can make this sentence appear to be [[object–subject–verb]] (OSV): ...

[[Augment (Bantu languages)]] - [[Evolution of languages]] - ...

| fam1 = [[Arawan languages|Arawan]] ...dialects are mutually intelligible Madí speakers refer to them as separate languages. The dialects and the tribes they represent are as follows:{{sfn|Dixon|2004 ...

| fam2 = [[Sinitic languages|Sinitic]] ...]], [[Hubei]], [[Anhui]], and [[Fujian]]. Gan is a member of the [[Sinitic languages]] of the [[Sino-Tibetan language family]], and [[Hakka Chinese|Hakka]] is t ...

...unity. Unlike [[home sign]], which does not pass between generations, sign languages are shared by a large community of signers.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-07 ...language=en }}</ref></blockquote>British Sign Language has evolved, as all languages do, from these origins by modification, invention and importation.<ref>[htt ...

| fam2 = [[Tibeto-Burman languages|Tibeto-Burman]] | fam3 = [[Lolo–Burmese languages|Lolo–Burmese]] ...

...pology''' studies it from a cross-linguistic perspective, and examines how languages employ different orders. Correlations between orders found in different syn ...ragmatic]] information, such as [[topicalisation]] or focus. However, even languages with flexible word order have a preferred or basic word order,<ref name="Co ...

*[[Chin State]] and [[Sagaing Region]], [[Languages of Myanmar|Myanmar]] ...sus/Language_MTs.html|title=Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues – 2011|publisher=Office of the Registrar General & Censu ...

...Irish]]).<ref name="Tomlin 1986" /> Families in which all or many of their languages are VOS include the following: * the [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian]] family (including [[Ojibwe language|Ojibwa]]) ...

...ate=June 2024|reason=The previous sentence implies that there are multiple languages with syntactic ergativity.}}}} ...ransitive verb is the [[ergative case|ergative]]. In nominative-accusative languages, the case for the single argument of an intransitive verb and the agent of ...

| data2 = [[Object–subject–verb word order|Reverse speech pattern]] ...anoid]] alien who is powerful with [[the Force]] and typically speaks in [[Object–subject–verb word order|an inverted phrase order]]. He first appeared in the 1980 film ' ...

|fam1=[[Uto-Aztecan languages|Uto-Aztecan]] |fam2=[[Numic languages|Numic]] ...

{{Short description|Fictional languages and scripts}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:Languages in ''Star Wars''}} ...