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Verb Subject Object - commonly used in its abbreviated form VSO - is a term in linguistic typology. It represents one type of languages when classifying languages according to the sequence of these constitutents in neutral expressions: Ate Sam oranges. The word order roughly corresponds to the order of symbols in (non-reverse) Polish notation or the S-expressions of the Lisp programming language.
The other permutations according to importance
- Subject Object Verb (e.g. Japanese, Persian, Latin)
- Subject Verb Object (e.g. English, German, Kiswahili, Chinese)
- Verb Object Subject (e.g. Fijian)
- Object Subject Verb (e.g. Xavante)
- Object Verb Subject (rare)
