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Lomavren language

Lomavren language

Nearly extinct mixed language spoken by the Lom people

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.

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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.[2] Also Greek and Latin included.

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References

  1. [1]
    Lomavren at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    "Gypsy ii. Gypsy Dialects". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-25.
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