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Conlangery #93: Basque/Euskara (natlang)

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Basque SOV - It's Not a Topic Prominent Language Like English

The behavior seems very much like the English possessive clinic. It's looks slightly like clittics, but a lot of studies have been done that have two-meep proven that they are really bound morphemes. Verbal syntax does all kinds of weird things as well. You will see people call Basque SOV. Well, it in some cases of neutral order. The verb can be nearly in any position. It can move around.basque is a topic prominent language,. not a subject prominent language like English. But really, it's really a topic, topic comment language like Japanese. By the way, just as pro-drop as Japanese is.

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