Lomavren language
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Lomavren
)Lomavren | |
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Native to | Armenia, Turkey, Syria |
Native speakers | 50 in Armenia (2004)[1] |
Armenian alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | rmi |
Glottolog | loma1235 |
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[2] 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.
Also Greek and Latin included.Numbers | Sanskrit | Mitanni | Hindi | Bengali | Romani | Domari | Lomavren | Greek | Persian | Sinhala | Latin |
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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
- ^ Lomavren at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b "Gypsy ii. Gypsy Dialects". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-25.