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SOV Word Order (Subject-Object-Verb)
SOV is one of the six basic types of word order found in human languages. In most sentences, a speaker of an SOV language
will put the subject first, the object second, and the verb last. So while an English speaker would say "Mary likes corn,"
an SOV language would express the same idea with the equivalent of "Mary corn likes."
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SOV is a very common word order worldwide. Here is a partial list of Native American languages using SOV word order:
Further Reading
Wikipedia: Subject-object-verb
Word Order Typology
Basic Language Structures

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