Я-ма-юю-о-і --рот.
Я м____ о__ і р___
Я м-л-ю о-і і р-т-
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Я малюю очі і рот. 0 YA--al---- -chi-i ro-.Y_ m______ o___ i r___Y- m-l-u-u o-h- i r-t-----------------------YA malyuyu ochi i rot.
Ч--о-----а--ює-- ---є--с-.
Ч______ т_____ і с________
Ч-л-в-к т-н-ю- і с-і-т-с-.
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Чоловік танцює і сміється. 0 C-o-o--- -a--syu-e i---------ya.C_______ t________ i s__________C-o-o-i- t-n-s-u-e i s-i-e-ʹ-y-.--------------------------------Cholovik tantsyuye i smiyetʹsya.
В----ос-ть у --к-х-п--иц-.
В__ н_____ у р____ п______
В-н н-с-т- у р-к-х п-л-ц-.
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Він носить у руках палицю. 0 V----osy-ʹ u--u-a-h -alyts--.V__ n_____ u r_____ p________V-n n-s-t- u r-k-k- p-l-t-y-.-----------------------------Vin nosytʹ u rukakh palytsyu.
Це-зима-і -о--дн-.
Ц_ з___ і х_______
Ц- з-м- і х-л-д-о-
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Це зима і холодно. 0 Tse-zy-a-i -h--o-n-.T__ z___ i k________T-e z-m- i k-o-o-n-.--------------------Tse zyma i kholodno.
В----е н---т- штан---і па---а.
В__ н_ н_____ ш_____ і п______
В-н н- н-с-т- ш-а-і- і п-л-т-.
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Він не носить штанів і пальта. 0 V-n n---o-yt--s-t-ni- i --l--a.V__ n_ n_____ s______ i p______V-n n- n-s-t- s-t-n-v i p-l-t-.-------------------------------Vin ne nosytʹ shtaniv i palʹta.
А-е чо-ові--не м-р-н-.
А__ ч______ н_ м______
А-е ч-л-в-к н- м-р-н-.
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Але чоловік не мерзне. 0 Ale c-ol--ik ne --r-n-.A__ c_______ n_ m______A-e c-o-o-i- n- m-r-n-.-----------------------Ale cholovik ne merzne.
Modern languages can be analyzed by linguists.
Various methods are used to do so.
But how did people speak thousands of years ago?
It is much more difficult to answer this question.
Despite this, scientists have been busy researching for years.
They would like to explore how people spoke earlier.
In order to do this, they attempt to reconstruct ancient speech forms.
American scientists have now made an exciting discovery.
They analyzed more than 2,000 languages.
In particular they analyzed the sentence structure of the languages.
The results of their study were very interesting.
About half of the languages had the S-O-V sentence structure.
That is to say, the sentences are ordered by subject, object and verb.
More than 700 languages follow the pattern S-V-O.
And about 160 languages operate according to the V-S-O system.
Only about 40 languages use the V-O-S pattern.
120 languages display a hybrid.
On the other hand, O-V-S and O-S-V are distinctly rarer systems.
The majority of the analyzed languages use the S-O-V principle.
Persian, Japanese and Turkish are some examples.
Most living languages follow the S-V-O pattern, however.
This sentence structure dominates the Indo-European language family today.
Researchers believe that the S-O-V model was used earlier.
All languages are based on this system.
But then the languages diverged.
We don't yet know how that happened.
However, the variation of sentence structures must have had a reason.
Because in evolution, only that which has an advantage prevails…