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Words are ordered differently in other languages, but it's an extremely rare language where it's standard to put the object before the subject. Wikipedia says
by dmurray 3y ago
Words are ordered differently in other languages, but it's an extremely rare language where it's standard to put the object before the subject.
Wikipedia says that 96% of studied human languages, covering over 99% of the population, have the subject before the object [0].
So it may not be an absolute, but there does seem to be something fundamental about subject-object being the more natural order.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject%E2%80%93verb%E2%80%93object_word_order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject%E2%80%93verb%E2%80%93o...