"She him loves." 45% "She loves him." 42% | 45% 45 42% 42 | |
45 Proto-Indo-European, Sanskrit, Hindi, Ancient Greek, Latin, Japanese 42 English, French, Hausa, Indonesian, Malay, Mandarin, Russian | ||
In linguistic typology, a verb–object–subject or verb–object–agent language – commonly abbreviated VOS or VOA – is one in which the most-typical sentences arrange their elements in that order: "Ate oranges Sam."
Commonly cited examples include Austronesian languages (such as Malagasy, Old Javanese, Toba Batak, Dusun, and Fijian) and Mayan languages (such as Tzotzil). In Hadza the word order VOS is very common, but the default is VSO.
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