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I've read recently about how English and other modern/western languages are built primarily around subjects and objects. The whole world is made up of nouns doing things to each other, as it were.
And I understand there are other languages where that is not the case; languages built on verbs and/or events and happenings. Nootka is cited as such an example, a language ''composed entirely of verbs.''
(1) Is this true of English (and of Nootka)?
(2) Are there official terms for these different types of languages? (E.g., ''subject-object'' languages, etc.)
(3) What other languages are there besides Nootka that are verb-based, that I might go read more about?
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