Verb Object Subject - commonly used in its abbreviated form VOS - 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 oranges Sam. The linguistic typology is the typology that classifies languages by their features. ... Morphological typology was developed by brothers Friedrich and August von Schlegel. ... An analytic language (or isolating language) is a language in which the vast majority of morphemes are free morphemes and considered to be full-fledged words. By contrast, in a synthetic language, a word is composed of agglutinated or fused morphemes that denote its syntactic meanings. ... A synthetic language, in linguistic typology, is a language with a high morpheme-to-word ratio. ... A fusional language is a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by its tendency to squish together many morphemes in a way which can be difficult to segment. ... An agglutinative language is a language in which the words are formed by joining morphemes together. ... Polysynthetic languages are highly synthetic languages, i. ... In linguistics, morphosyntactic alignment is the system used to distinguish between the arguments of transitive verbs and intransitive verbs. ... A nominative-accusative language (or simply accusative language) is one that marks the direct object of transitive verbs distinguishing them from the subject of both transitive and intransitive verbs. ... An ergative-absolutive language (or just ergative language) is one that marks the subject of transitive verbs distinctly from the subject of intransitive verbs and the object of transitive verbs. ... A nominative-absolutive language is one that marks the subject of a transitive verb or a voluntary subject of an intransitive verb distinctly from the object of a transitive verb or an involuntary subject of an intransitive verb. ... A tripartite language is one that marks the agent, experiencer, and patient verb arguments each in different ways. ... A direct-inverse language is one where morphosyntactic markers vary according to compliance or non-compliance with normal rules governing the neutral order of verb arguments with respect to the position of each on the animacyhierarchy, similar to the way that Indo-European neuters were not originally regarded as possible... The syntactic pivot is the verb argument around which sentences revolve, in a given language. ... In linguistics, a theta role or θ-role is the semantic role a noun phrase plays in a sentence. ... Word order, in linguistic typology, refers to the order in which words appear in sentences across different languages. ... In linguistic typology, subject-verb-object (SVO) is the sequence subject verb object in neutral expressions: Sam ate oranges. ... Verb Subject Object—commonly used in its abbreviated form VSO—is a term in linguistic typology. ... In linguistic typology, Subject Object Verb (SOV) is the type of languages in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence appear (usually) in that order. ... Object Subject Verb (OSV) is one of the permutations of expression used in Linguistic typology. ... Object Verb Subject (OVS) is one of the permutations of expression used in linguistic typology. ... Time Manner Place is a term used in linguistic typology to state the general order of adpositional phrases in a languages sentences: yesterday by car to the store. It is common among SOV languages. ... Place Manner Time is a term used in linguistic typology to state the general order of adpositional phrases in a languages sentences: to the store by car yesterday. It would seem that it is common among SVO languages. ... The linguistic typology is the typology that classifies languages by their features. ...

Examples include Malagasy, (Old) Javanese and Fijian. Note that these three languages are all Austronesian languages. The Javanese language is the inferred language of the people in the central and eastern part of the island of Java, in Indonesia. ... The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. ...

The permutations in the order of most common to rarest are:

• Subject Object Verb (SOV) Sam oranges eats. (for example Korean, Japanese, Persian, Latin)
• Subject Verb Object (SVO) Sam eats oranges. (for example English, German, Kiswahili, Chinese)
• Verb Subject Object (VSO) Eats Sam oranges. (for example Welsh, Hawaiian, Tagalog and Arabic)
• Verb Object Subject (VOS) Eats oranges Sam. (for example Fijian, Malagasy)
• Object Subject Verb (OSV) Oranges Sam eats. (for example Yoda's unusual dialect of Basic)
• Object Verb Subject (OVS) Oranges eats Sam. (for example Hixkaryana, or the artificial language Klingon)