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Branch of the Indo-European language family including all languages descended from Latin, such as French, Spanish and Italian.

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Why are French, Italian, Spanish etc. listed as SVO languages?

French is the most strictly SVO language followed by Italian. Spanish is extremely flexible in terms of word order - with VSO sentences being particularly common, possibly due to semitic influence. VS …
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Why are Latin descendants SVO?

The premise holds for most Romance languages but it is difficult to categorize Spanish (the largest latin language by number of speakers) as an SVO language. The earliest texts in medieval Spanish wer …
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