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Value Subject-object-verb (SOV)
Language:
Sri Lanka Portuguese
Parameter:
Order of subject, object, and verb
References
Smith 1979
Examples
avara nosa mahanaaruntu um pesaam alaa ɔɔrta jatomaa
avara
now
nosa
1pl
.
gen
mahanaar-untu
son-
loc
um
one
pesaam
person
alaa
there
ɔɔrta
land
jaa-tomaa
pst
-buy
Now one of our sons has bought land there.
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