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Word Order Facts maps how languages arrange words
A language reference built around word-order patterns, with profiles, maps, and a tool for comparing two languages feature by feature.
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- Its seven-order breakdown covers 1,376 languages coded for basic subject, object, and verb order.
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The homepage organizes its material into language profiles, feature pages, family and area groupings, and field notes. Its feature links include tone, consonant inventories, grammatical cases, and whether adjectives precede nouns; a question-led section points readers toward topics such as the distribution of “tea” and “chai.” The page names WALS Online as its source and separately refers to 2,661 languages in the atlas.
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