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subject - verb - object word order.

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Why are French, Italian, Spanish etc. listed as SVO languages?

French is the most strictly SVO language followed by Italian. Spanish is extremely flexible in terms of word order - with VSO sentences being particularly common, possibly due to semitic influence. … Native Spanish speakers (such as myself) arguably use them more often than SVO. …
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Why are Latin descendants SVO?

The earliest texts in medieval Spanish were all VSO and I, as a native Spanish speaker, tend to use VSO sentences slightly more often than SVO. … Possibly Arabic influence on Spanish which has a similar flexibility between VSO and SVO. …
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