Basic Word Order

Basic word order refers to the sequence in which the subject (S), the object (O) and the verb (V) of a transitive sentence occur in speech. There are six possible orders: SOV, SVO, VSO, VOS, OVS and OSV. Of these, SOV and SVO are the most common, accounting together for about 80% of the world's languages. Most of the remaining languages have VSO word order, while VOS, OVS and OSV are rare.

In my constructed language, the only two word orders are SVO and SOV. Most commonly, the word order is SVO, and least of the time, SOV.

Let's use the following sentence as an example: "The dog bit the man." The subject is "The dog", the verb is "sees", and the object is "the man".

If translated, it would be: "Le cano mordeavi le homo." The subject is "Le cano", the verb is "mordeavi", and the object is "le homo".