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3 unusual facts about SOV


Kanbun

Following these kanbun instructions step by step transforms the sentence so it has the typical Japanese subject–object–verb argument order.

Conversely, the basic structure of a transitive Japanese sentence is SOV, with the usual syntactic features associated with languages of this typology, including post positions, that is, grammar particles that appear after the words and phrases to which they apply.

Khanty language

Khanty is an agglutinative language and employs an SOV order.


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Ciudad Barranquilla

Mega-City One, secretly informed of these acts by a Sov defector, formed and led an international peacekeeping mission - Mega-City would provide the bulk of the military units, led by Judge Dredd, while Brit-Cit and Euro-Cit provided most of the medical & technical personnel.

Proto-Human language

In a 2003 paper, Murray Gell-Mann and Merritt Ruhlen argued that the ancestral language had subject–object–verb (SOV) word order.


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