Sasak has a flexible word order, typical of Indonesian western Austronesian (WAN) languages. Frequency distributions of the various word orders are influenced by the verb forms in the clause (i.e. whether the clause involves a nasal or an unmarked verb, see #Verbs). Clauses involving the nasal verb form are predominantly subject-verb-object (SVO), similar to actor-focus classes in other Indonesian WAN languages. In contrast, clauses with an unmarked verb form do not have a dominant word order; three of the six possible orders (subject-verb-object, verb-subject-object and object-verb-subject) occur with roughly-equal frequency.