Although some subject–verb–object languages in West Africa, the best known being Ewe, use postpositions in noun phrases, the vast majority of them, such as English, have prepositions. Most subject–verb–object languages place genitives after the noun, but a significant minority, including the postpositional SVO languages of West Africa, the Hmong–Mien languages, some Sino-Tibetan languages, and European languages like Swedish, Danish, Lithuanian and Latvian have prenominal genitives (as would be expected in an SOV language).
although some subject–verb–object languages in west africa the best known being ewe use postpositions in noun phrases the vast majority of them such as english have prepositions most subject–verb–object languages place genitives after the noun but a significant minority including the postpositional svo languages of west africa the hmong–mien languages some sino-tibetan languages and european languages like swedish danish lithuanian and latvian have prenominal genitives (as would be expected in an sov language)