Object–verb–subject

As OVS languages ​​( object verb subject) are in language typology those languages ​​referred to in which object, verb and subject in the normal case - that is, in pragmatic unmarked declarative sentences in the present tense - occur in this order in which this word order that is dominant ( ie, the basic word order ) is.

OVS is next OSV one of the rarest of the possible phrase sequences. OVS occurs in less than 1% of the world's languages ​​. Languages ​​with this basic word order, for example, are the indigenous American languages ​​Cubeo, Hixkaryana and Selk'nam, the oceanic language Tuvalu, the Australian languages ​​Mangarrayi and Ungarinjin, the Nilo-Saharan language Päri and the artificial language Klingon, which should sound possible exotic. Most languages ​​with dominant OVS word order in South America and there are va spoken in the Amazon basin.

An example of OVS word order provides the following sentence from the Hixkaryana, a Carib language:

The OVS construction is to emphasize the object, among others, in Romanian, Basque, Turkish, Mongolian, Hungarian, Finnish, German, Dutch and Esperanto ( artificially ) is possible, under certain conditions, in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and in Interlingua ( artificially ). In these languages, OVS is however not the basic word order, they will therefore not be referred to as OVS languages.