Object–subject–verb word order
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In linguistic typology, object–subject–verb (OSV) or object–agent–verb (OAV) is a classification of languages, based on whether the structure predominates in pragmatically neutral expressions. An example of this would be "Oranges Sam ate" (meaning, Sam ate oranges).
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Order | Example | Usage | Languages | |
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SOV | "Cows grass eat." | 45% | 45 |
Bengali, Burmese, Hindustani, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Malayalam, Oromo, Persian, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Nepali |
SVO | "Cows eat grass." | 42% | 42 |
Arabic (modern spoken varieties), Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hausa, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Portuguese, Spanish, Standard Average European, Swahili, Thai, Vietnamese |
VSO | "Eat cows grass." | 9% | 9 |
Modern Standard Arabic |
VOS | "Eat grass cows." | 3% | 3 |
Car, Fijian, Malagasy, Qʼeqchiʼ, Terêna |
OVS | "Grass eat cows." | 1% | 1 |
Hixkaryana, Urarina |
OSV | "Grass cows eat." | 0% | Tobati, Warao | |
Frequency distribution of word order in languages surveyed by Russell S. Tomlin in the 1980s[1][2] () |
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