How Indian Languages Break the 'Default' Word Order Myth
When you travel across India, the way people build sentences changes almost as often as the landscape. You’ll hear words land in an order that sounds “backward” to English speakers. Yet, for millions, it feels perfectly natural. India’s languages split into families. The two biggest? Indo-Aryan (name assigned by “linguists”) in the north (think Hindi, Bengali, Marathi), and Dravidian in the south (think Tamil, Telugu, Kannada). Both use Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) as their standard order....