Lomavren language
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| Lomavren | |
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| Lomavren | |
| Native to | Armenia, Syria, Azerbaijan, Russia[1] |
Native speakers | 50 in Armenia (2004)[2] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | rmi |
| History of the Armenian language |
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Armenian alphabet Romanization of Armenian |
Lomavren (Armenian: Լոմավրեն lomavren) is a nearly extinct mixed language, spoken by the Lom people, that arose from language contact between Romani-speaking people and the Armenian language.
Names
The language is also known as (Armenian) Bosa/Bosha.
Linguistic features
It lacks grammatical gender and has 7 nominal cases; its grammar is closely related to that of the Erzerum dialect of Armenian, with the vocabulary being almost exclusively Indic.
Numerals in the Romani, Domari and Lomavren languages, with Hindi and Persian forms for comparison.[3] Note that Romani 7–9 are borrowed from Greek.
| Hindi | Romani | Domari | Lomavren | Persian | |
| 1 | ek | ekh, jekh | yika | yak, yek | yak, yek |
| 2 | do | duj | dī | lui | du, do |
| 3 | tīn | trin | tærən | tərin | se |
| 4 | cār | štar | štar | išdör | čahār |
| 5 | pāñc | pandž | pandž | pendž | pandž |
| 6 | che | šov | šaš | šeš | šaš, šeš |
| 7 | sāt | ifta | xaut | haft | haft |
| 8 | āţh | oxto | xaišt | hašt | hašt |
| 9 | nau | inja | na | nu | nuh, noh |
| 10 | das | deš | des | las | dah |
| 20 | bīs | biš | wīs | vist | bist |
| 100 | sau | šel | saj | saj | sad |
References
- ↑ The Lomavren Language - Linguist list
- ↑ Lomavren reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ↑ after Ian Hancock, On Romani Origins and Identity, RADOC (2007)
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