Talk:Wu (linguistics)
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The bit where it says Wu is SOV or has a high occurance of SOV. Well i am Wu blood and speaker, and i can tell you right now, its not high occurance. Regulary the syntax of words get changed round heaps, but not in the manner from SVO to SOV. its not such a drastic change. However i could be wrong, there might be weird cases. So it would be good to state some examples. --Fifty lightning (talk) 12:49, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Ok i thought of one. It is actually quite common. Most sentences can be structured like mandarin (SVO) and the same sentence can be structured as one of SOV. This is one example. mandarin: Nimen xi so - you(plural) wash hands Wu alternate 1: Nar seu da a - you(plural) hands wash Wu alternate 2: Nar da seu a - you(plural) wash hands
But can someone check the exact way to write the sounds for me, because i dont know pingyin and Wu version of pinyin very well. Thats y i havent changed the actual page. --Fifty lightning (talk) 08:27, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
