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| fam1 = [[Cariban languages|Carib]] | fam2 = [[Parukotoan languages|Parukotoan]] ...

In [[linguistic typology]], '''object–verb–subject''' ('''OVS''') or '''object–verb–agent''' ('''OVA''') is a rare permutation ...|constituents]]. OVS languages have a sequence of the constituents that is object–verb–subject such as [[Äiwoo]], [[Guarijio language|Guarijio]], [[Hixkaryana language|Hi ...

...9 December 2007) was a [[linguistics|linguist]] who specialized in [[Carib languages]]. ...known for his work on [[Hixkaryana language|Hixkaryana]], known for its [[object–verb–subject]] [[word order]]. Derbyshire's study of the language (as a linguist with th ...

...>{{Cite news |last=Thurman |first=Judith |date=2015-03-23 |title=Can Dying Languages Be Saved? |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/a-loss-for-wor | fam1 = [[Moseten–Chonan languages|Moseten–Chonan]] ? ...

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

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

|fam2=[[Malayo-Polynesian languages|Malayo-Polynesian]] |fam3=[[Oceanic languages|Oceanic]] ...

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...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 ...

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{{short description|Proposed common ancestor to all human languages}} | target = All extant and extinct human languages ...

...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 ...

{{Short description|Proposed superfamily of Eurasian and African languages}} ...pe]], [[Asia]] except for the [[classification schemes for Southeast Asian languages|southeast]], [[North Africa|North]] and [[Horn of Africa|Northeast Africa]] ...

...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]]) ...

The term is often loosely used for [[Ergative–absolutive alignment|ergative languages]] like [[Adyghe language|Adyghe]] and [[Basque language|Basque]] that in fa ...[subject–verb–object]]; the two types account for more than 87% of natural languages with a preferred order).<ref>{{cite book |last=Crystal |first=David |author ...

...d C. |last2=Pullum |first2=Geoffrey |date=1979-01-01 |title=Object initial languages |journal=Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of Pullum argues against the view that the "languages"—in the sense of entities like Romanian or English—are scientifically and c ...

....archive.org/web/20130512121409/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.08/es.languages.html?pg=4&topic= |date=2013-05-12 }}</ref> | fam1 = [[Constructed languages]] ...

| fam1 = [[Kartvelian languages|Kartvelian]] | fam2 = [[Karto-Zan languages|Karto-Zan]] ...

|map2 = Francosign Languages of North America.svg |mapcaption2 = Map of the North American [[Francosign languages|Francosign]] languages. ASL covers the regions enclosed by the dashed line. ...

{{Short description|Group of languages}} {{Distinguish|Languages of the Caribbean{{!}}Caribbean languages}} ...