In linguistic typology, Subject Object Verb (SOV) is the general order of words in a language's sentences: "Sam oranges ate". The SOV type is the most common type found in natural languages. It corresponds roughly to reverse Polish notation in computer languages. Turkish language, Japanese language, Korean language, Persian language, Latin, Burmese language and most Indian languages belong to this category. German language and Dutch language are basically SOV, but employ SVO in main clauses. See V2 word order. SOV languages tend to have the adjectives before nouns, to use postpositions rather than prepositions, to place relative clauses before the nouns to which they refer, and to place auxiliary verbs after the action verb. Some have special grammatical particles to distinguish the subject and the object, such as the Japanese ''ga'' and ''o''. SOV languages also seem to exhibit a tendency towards using a Time Manner Place ordering of prepositional phrases. An example in Japanese is: 私は箱を開けます。(watashi wa hako wo akemasu.) meaning "I open a/the box/boxes." In this sentence, 私 (watashi) is the subject (or more specifically, topic) meaning "I" as in first person singular, and it is followed by the は (wa) subject marker. 箱 (hako) is the object meaning box (in Japanese no distinction is made between whether a word uses "a" or "the", or plural or singular unless specifically stated), followed by を (wo) which is the object marker in Japanese. 開けます (akemasu) is the verb which means "to open" and is at the end of the sentence. The permutations in the order of most common to rarest are: * Subject Verb Object (SVO) ''Sam ate oranges.'' (for example English language, German language, Swahili language, Chinese language) * Subject Object Verb (SOV) ''Sam oranges ate.'' (for example Japanese language, Korean language, Persian language, Latin) * Verb Subject Object (VSO) ''Ate Sam oranges.'' (for example Welsh language, Hawaiian language and Arabic language) * Verb Object Subject (VOS) ''Ate oranges Sam.'' (for example Fijian language) * Object Verb Subject (OVS) ''Oranges ate Sam.'' (for example Hixkaryana language, or the artificial language Klingon language) * Object Subject Verb (OSV) ''Oranges Sam ate.'' (for example Yoda's unusual dialect of Languages in Star Wars) ==See also== * Topic-prominent language
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In linguistic typology, Subject Object Verb (SOV) is the general order of words in a language's sentences: "Sam oranges ate". The SOV type is the most common type found in natural languages. It corresponds roughly to reverse Polish notation in computer languages. Turkish language, Japanese language, Korean language, Persian language, Latin, Burmese language and most Indian languages belong to this category. German language and Dutch language are basically SOV, but employ SVO in main clauses. See V2 word order. SOV languages tend to have the adjectives before nouns, to use postpositions rather than prepositions, to place relative clauses before the nouns to which they refer, and to place auxiliary verbs after the action verb. Some have special grammatical particles to distinguish the subject and the object, such as the Japanese ''ga'' and ''o''. SOV languages also seem to exhibit a tendency towards using a Time Manner Place ordering of prepositional phrases. An example in Japanese is: 私は箱を開けます。(watashi wa hako wo akemasu.) meaning "I open a/the box/boxes." In this sentence, 私 (watashi) is the subject (or more specifically, topic) meaning "I" as in first person singular, and it is followed by the は (wa) subject marker. 箱 (hako) is the object meaning box (in Japanese no distinction is made between whether a word uses "a" or "the", or plural or singular unless specifically stated), followed by を (wo) which is the object marker in Japanese. 開けます (akemasu) is the verb which means "to open" and is at the end of the sentence. The permutations in the order of most common to rarest are: * Subject Verb Object (SVO) ''Sam ate oranges.'' (for example English language, German language, Swahili language, Chinese language) * Subject Object Verb (SOV) ''Sam oranges ate.'' (for example Japanese language, Korean language, Persian language, Latin) * Verb Subject Object (VSO) ''Ate Sam oranges.'' (for example Welsh language, Hawaiian language and Arabic language) * Verb Object Subject (VOS) ''Ate oranges Sam.'' (for example Fijian language) * Object Verb Subject (OVS) ''Oranges ate Sam.'' (for example Hixkaryana language, or the artificial language Klingon language) * Object Subject Verb (OSV) ''Oranges Sam ate.'' (for example Yoda's unusual dialect of Languages in Star Wars) ==See also== * Topic-prominent language
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