VO language

VO language

noun Linguistics.
a type of language that has direct objects following the verb and that tends to have typological traits such as prepositions, prefixes, noun modifiers following nouns, adverbs following verbs, and auxiliary verbs preceding the main verb.
Compare OV language.


Origin:
(v)erb-o(bject)
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Vo language is always a great word to know.
So is consonant shift. Does it mean:
a set of changes that take place in the articulation of one or more consonant phonemes between an earlier and a later stage of a language
the total inventory of morphemes in a given language plus their combinations with additional and derivative morphemes
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