Uncommon
Subject–object–verb word order
Feature of language
Subject–object–verb word order
In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that order. If English were SOV, "Sam apples ate" would be an ordinary sentence, as opposed to the actual Standard English "Sam ate apples" which is subject–verb–object (SVO). Together, SVO and SOV account for more than 87% of the world's languages, while the three "subject before object" orders make up almost 96%. The term is often loosely used for ergative languages like Adyghe and Basque that in fact have agents instead of subjects.
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