I find it quite fascinating that in the videos I’ve seen with Bunny, she tends to use SOV word-order (Subject Object Verb) even though her owner always (that I’ve seen) uses the SVO order of English. Most The majority of human languages use SOV, about 75% 45% of the ones that care about word order. It seems to be mathematically convenient as well.
I find it quite fascinating that in the videos I’ve seen with Bunny, she tends to use SOV word-order (Subject Object Verb) even though her owner always (that I’ve seen) uses the SVO order of English.
MostThe majority of human languages use SOV, about75%45% of the ones that care about word order. It seems to be mathematically convenient as well.If the “75%” stat is coming from Wikipedia, that’s for SOV and SVO combined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject%E2%80%93object%E2%80%93verb#Incidence .
Ah, good catch thanks!