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Object–verb word order
In linguistics, languages with object–verb word order are those in which the object comes before the verb. Such languages compose approximately forty-seven percent of documented languages.
They are primarily left-branching, or head-final, with heads often found at the end of their phrases, with a resulting tendency to have the adjectives before nouns, to place adpositions after the noun phrases they govern (in other words, to use postpositions), to put relative clauses before their referents, and to place auxiliary verbs after the action verb. Of the OV languages that make use of affixes, many predominantly, or even exclusively, as in the case of Turkish, prefer suffixation to prefixation.
For example, English would be considered a VO language, and Japanese and Korean would be considered to be OV.
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Object–verb word order
In linguistics, languages with object–verb word order are those in which the object comes before the verb. Such languages compose approximately forty-seven percent of documented languages.
They are primarily left-branching, or head-final, with heads often found at the end of their phrases, with a resulting tendency to have the adjectives before nouns, to place adpositions after the noun phrases they govern (in other words, to use postpositions), to put relative clauses before their referents, and to place auxiliary verbs after the action verb. Of the OV languages that make use of affixes, many predominantly, or even exclusively, as in the case of Turkish, prefer suffixation to prefixation.
For example, English would be considered a VO language, and Japanese and Korean would be considered to be OV.
犬
inu
が
ga
猫