Lomavren language

Lomavren
Native to	Armenia, Syria, Azerbaijan, Russia[1]
Native speakers	50 in Armenia (2004)[2]
Language family	mixed Lom–Armenian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rmi
Glottolog	loma1235[3]

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^[4] 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.^[5] 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

1. The Lomavren Language - Linguist list
2. Lomavren at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lomavren". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
4. Encyclopedia Iranica
5. after Ian Hancock, On Romani Origins and Identity, RADOC (2007)