Template:Language word order frequency

Order	Example	Usage		Languages
SOV	"Sam oranges ate."	45%	45	Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Ainu, Amharic, Ancient Greek, Akkadian, Armenian, Avar, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bengali, Burmese, Burushaski, Elamite, Hindustani, Hittite, Hopi, Hungarian, Itelmen, Japanese, Kabardian, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lhasa Tibetan, Malayalam, Manchu, Mongolian, Navajo, Nepali, Nivkh, Oromo, Pali, Pashtu, Persian, Quechua, Sanskrit, Sicilian, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Yukaghir
SVO	"Sam ate oranges."	42%	42	Arabic (modern spoken varieties), Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hausa, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Kashmiri, Malay, Portuguese, Spanish, Standard Average European, Swahili, Thai, Vietnamese
VSO	"Ate Sam oranges."	9%	9	Arabic (modern standard), Filipino, Geʽez, Irish, Māori, Tuareg-Berber, Welsh
VOS	"Ate oranges Sam."	3%	3	Algonquian languages, Arawakan languages, Austronesian languages, Car, Chumash, Fijian, Malagasy, Mayan languages, Otomanguean languages, Qʼeqchiʼ, Salishan languages, Terêna
OVS	"Oranges ate Sam."	1%	1	Hixkaryana, Urarina
OSV	"Oranges Sam ate."	0%		Tobati, Warao
Frequency distribution of word order in languages surveyed by Russell S. Tomlin in the 1980s^[1]^[2] ( v t e )

References

^ Meyer, Charles F. (2010). Introducing English Linguistics (Student ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^ Tomlin, Russell S. (1986). Basic Word Order: Functional Principles. London: Croom Helm. p. 22. ISBN 9780709924999. OCLC 13423631.