Verb–subject–object word order

Verb Subject Object - commonly used in its abbreviated form VSO - 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. The word order roughly corresponds to the order of symbols in (non-reverse) Polish notation or the S-expressions of the LISP programming language.

The other permutations according to importance

• Subject Verb Object (e.g. English, German, Kiswahili, Chinese)
• Subject Object Verb (e.g. Japanese, Persian, Latin)
• Verb Subject Object (e.g. Irish, classical Arabic, Egyptian
• Verb Object Subject (rare)
• Object Subject Verb (rare)
• Object Verb Subject (rare)