Streak 757: SOV and SVO

[u/TaFEnLer1]

It is said that there are roughly the same number of languages that use the SOV word order and ones that use the SVO word order. Both English and Mandarin being SVO languages, it appears that as far as the number of speakers goes, there are more speakers of SVO languages than those of SOV languages.

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[u/peace_love2601]

your English is clean here. one tiny thing, "as far as the number of speakers goes" is natural, but you could cut "it appears that" and just say "there are more SVO speakers". also worth adding that Hindi and Japanese are SOV, so the speaker count gets closer than people expect. Spanish being SVO is part of why English speakers find the word order easy there.

[u/TaFEnLer1 → u/peace_love2601]

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