Object–verb word order
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Object–verb word order
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In linguistics, an OV language, or a language with object-verb word order, is a language in which the object comes before the verb. OV 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, to put relative clauses before their referents, and to place auxil
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Languages which place objects before verbs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93verb_word_order
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2023-06-23T23:17:42Z
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