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Conlangery #130: Interview with Kaye Boesme

Conlangery Podcast

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The Origins of SVAO

Salus notes a difference in word order between Dveshi and Lure own language Naragi. Eterji puts the verb first, SVAO places it at the midpoint of two words. Salus asks if humans will tend to do that or is it because languages should be SVAO. Do they even know about earth? It's one of those really interesting questions i think well um yeahIt seems across families that there's SVAO and SOV are very common and OVS is extremely rare.

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