Lomavren
Native toArmenia, Syria, Azerbaijan, Russia[1]
Native speakers
50 in Armenia (2004)[2]
Armenian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3rmi
Glottologloma1235

Lomavren (Armenian: Լոմավրեն lomavren) is a nearly extinct mixed language spoken by the Lom people, that arose from language contact between a language related to Romani and Domari[3] and the Armenian language.

Names

The language is also known as Bosa/Bosha.

Linguistic features

It lacks grammatical gender and has seven grammatical 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 Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Persian and Sinhala forms for comparison.[3] Also Greek and Latin included.

Numbers Sanskrit Mitanni Hindi Bengali Romani Domari Lomavren Greek Persian Sinhala Latin
1 éka aika- (a-i-ka-) ek æk ekh, jekh yika yak, yek éna yak, yek eka ūnus, ūna, ūnum
2 dvá do dui duj dī lui dýo du, do deka duo, duae, duo
3 trí tera-? (ti-e-ra-) tīn tin trin tærən tərin tría se thuna/thri trēs, tria
4 catvā́raḥ cār char štar štar išdör téssera čahār hathara/sathara quattuor
5 páñca pańća-? (pa-an-za-) pā̃c panch pandž pandž pendž pénte pandž paha quīnque
6 ṣáṭ chah chhoy šov šaš šeš éxi šeš haya/saya sex
7 saptá satta (ša-at-ta) sāt sāt ifta xaut haft eptá haft hata/satha septem
8 aṣṭá āṭh āṭh oxto xaišt hašt októ hašt ata octō
9 náva nāva- (na-a-[w]a-) nau noy inja na nu ennéa noh nawaya novem
10 dáśa das dosh deš des las déka dah dahaya decem
20 viṃśatí bīs bish biš wīs vist eíkosi bist wissa vīgintī
100 śatá sau eksho šel saj saj ekató sad siiya/shathakaya centum

References

  1. ^ "Lomavren". MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
  2. ^ Lomavren at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  3. ^ a b "Gypsy ii. Gypsy Dialects". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-25.
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