>> >> >Articles are very common in vso-languages and often found in
>> >> >svo-
>>
>> I believe some Germanic (Scandinavian) & Romance
>> (Rumanian) languages have articles after the noun,
>> but AFAIK these languages are not SOV.
>
>Most languages in europe is of the svo-type, but often with strong
>VSO-features.
>In svo-languages, it seems, articles can be placed both before and
>after the noun.
>The scandinavian languages, Rumenian, Basque, Albanian, and Bulgarian
>(as far as I remember) have articles after the noun, the same is true
>for some russian dialects (standard russian do not have articles).
>In these languages the post-fixed article are not any more an
>independent word, but has totally merged with the noun declention,
>and grammers of these languages useually speak about definite and
>indefinite forms.
>This border does not seem to go between slavonic and the rest, even
>though many slavonic languages are east of this border. In
>scandinavia the border goes between the scandinavian languages and
>finnish.

OK, thanks!

Marc