>his "language" uses SOV word order

The only reason English is SVO is likely because of a Celtic substrate

>not having free word order
how barbaric

>well-known the world wisest ethnic aka german using SOV too
feels good mang

>>76625132
>his language requires pronouns
Childish.

>ordo verbi

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>>76625831
this :D

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>die
>das
>der
>dem
>den
>des

>not having SVOV word order when using auxilliary verbs

lol nerds

>>76625132

I think most languages have a quite free word order.

>OVS Best, is it not?

>>76627123
It's a meme, at least for Russian. Theoretically, you can put words in every order but some variations may sound awkward depending on the intonation and context.

** denote word stress
SVO:
1. Misha lyubit *Mashu* (standard intonation) - Misha loves Masha
2. Misha *lyubit* Mashu - Misha *does* love Masha
3. *Misha* lyubit Mashu - It's Misha who loves Masha (you would say answering the question "Who loves Masha?")
OVS
1. *Mashu* lyubit Misha - It's Masha who Misha loves (as a response to "Who does Misha love?")
2. Mashu *lyubit* Misha - Misha *does* love Masha; the difference is this variant sounds very off unlike the straight word order
3. Mashu lyubit *Misha* - It's Misha who loves Masha ("Who loves Masha?")
and so on
Basically, you can use SVO, VSO, OSV, SVO etc but some sounds very strange or can be used only in certain situations.

>>76625769
Funnily enough Irish, goidelic celtic, is Verb-Subject-Object

>>76626922
>his
>him
>her
>its
>whom
>whose

>>76628817
I think Irish/Goidelic were the most conservative of the Celtic languages, it's a bit murky as to what exactly the properties of Brythonic were. But there are several features in English that are hard to explain in any other way but a substrate. It's too irregular for its language family.

>>76625932
>topics
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>76625831
>>76626841
Fuck off you unintelligible fingols. Your language is borderline impossible for non-natives to learn or speak.

>>76629776
>>76625769
Nah. English is a germanic language and those languages use SVO in most cases.

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>>76629057
ein
eine
einem

a
a
a

PLeAse MaKe YouR LanguagE easy :cccccccccc

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>>76629057
>whomstve

>>76625831
if you speak in finnish using only one word order, will people think you are autistic?

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>>76625132
>not using the word order of his ancestors

Western Romance languages are generally SVO, but they sometimes they're be SOV, especially with personal pronouns (including reflexive verbs).

>>76628074
Only languages from the Amazon have this order, which tell us how different their minds are.

VOS is even weirder, imo.

>>76642814
According to wikipedia, OSV (yoda talk) is the least common.

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>>76642841
>Warao (also known as Guarauno, Guarao, Warrau) is the native language of the Warao people. A language isolate, it is spoken by about 28,000 people primarily in northern Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname. It is notable for its unusual object–subject–verb word order.
I always wonder, how the fuck do such language isolates come into being? How can a language isolate emerge in Northern Venezuela? Sure, it's relatively isolated, but it's still right on the coast, and so it can't possibly be THAT isolated. And more importantly, we know that languages existed way before the first humans ever arrived in South America, and so, in such a context, how the fuck does a language isolate come into being? Especially one that is so very weird (from a syntaxic perspective, at least).