Lomavren | |
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Lomavren | |
Spoken in | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Syria [1] |
Native speakers | 50[2] (date missing) |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | rmi |
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Lomavren (Armenian: Լոմավրեն lomavren) is a nearly extinct mixed language, spoken by the Lom people that arose from language contact between proto-Romani-speaking people and the Armenian language.
The language is also known as (Armenian) Bosa/Bosha.
It lacks a grammatical gender and has 7 grammatical cases; its grammar is closely related to Armenian, with the vocabulary being almost exclusively Indic.
Numerals in the Romani, Lomavren and Domari languages, with Hindi forms for comparison.[3]
Hindi | Romani | Lomavren | Domari | |
1 | ek | ekh, jekh | yak, yek | yika |
2 | do | duj | lui | dī |
3 | tīn | trin | tərin | tærən |
4 | cār | štar | išdör | štar |
5 | pāñc | pandž | pendž | pandž |
6 | che | šov | šeš | šaš |
7 | sāt | ifta | haft | xaut |
8 | āţh | oxto | hašt | xaišt |
9 | nau | inja | nu | na |
10 | das | deš | las | des |
20 | bīs | biš | vist | wīs |
100 | sau | šel | saj | saj |