klingon_grammar1-5  Exercise 3: Four Word Orders
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"The warrior sees the child":

  SVO   the warrior sees the child       (English, Esperanto)
  SOV   the warrior the child sees       (Japanese)
  VSO   sees the warrior the child       (Irish, Welsh)
  OVS   the child sees the warrior       (Klingon; the words are "puq legh
                                          SuvwI'")

Why third-person Klingon relies on word order:

  The verb prefixes mark the subject and object only when a first or second
  person is involved (vI-, qa-, Da- and so on). When both are third person,
  the prefix is empty, so nothing on the verb says who does what. The nouns
  have no case endings either, so their position (object first, subject
  last) is the only signal.