Lomavren language

Lomavren
Lomavren
Spoken in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Syria [1]
Native speakers 50[2]  (date missing)
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 rmi

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.

Names

The language is also known as (Armenian) Bosa/Bosha.

Linguistic features

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
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

References

  1. ^ The Lomavren Language - Linguist list
  2. ^ Ethnologue
  3. ^ after Ian Hancock, On Romani Origins and Identity, RADOC (2007)[1]