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> For example, Kłeti has a sentence structure that is SOV (Subject-Object-Verb), while all the languages I know have a Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) sentence struct
by lloeki 4y ago
> For example, Kłeti has a sentence structure that is SOV (Subject-Object-Verb), while all the languages I know have a Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) sentence structure.
"all the languages I know" caveat alright, still Japanese has the verb at the end, and my German is far far away but I seem to recall it has something like that as well (at least the meaningful "verb-like" semantic part of the sentence often being at the end)
- OJFord 4y agoThat was an 'example' of how: > the language is very different from the Indo-European languages that I am familiar with. So it's not even a caveat really, nevermind misleading or suggesting the author thinks all languages have that order.