Native speakers 50 in Armenia (2004) ISO 639-3 rmi | Glottolog loma1235 | |
Native to Armenia, Syria, Azerbaijan, Russia | ||
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 and the Armenian language.
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Names
The language is also known as (Armenian) Bosa/Bosha.
Linguistic features
It lacks grammatical gender and has 7 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 Hindi and Persian forms for comparison. Note that Romani 7–9 are borrowed from Greek.
References
Lomavren language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA