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On Tuesday 06 December 2005 15:37, John E Clifford wrote:
> --- Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com> wrote:

> > What's the word order in Arabic, anyway?
>
> Good question.  Any at least tyros?

IIRR Semitic was VSO, though SVO is fairly common in Hebrew.

As to Lojban word order, supposing it to have evolved from some Proto-Loglanic 
language instead of being constructed, it appears to me to have been SOV, as 
{naku} is easier to understand that way. Some verbs naturally make more sense 
in an SSVO construction, such as {frica}.

phma


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