| Lomavren | |
|---|---|
| Bosa, Bosha | |
| Լոմավրեն | |
| Native to | Armenia,Turkey,Syria |
Native speakers | 50 in Armenia (2004)[1] |
| Armenian alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | rmi |
| Glottolog | loma1235 |
Lomavren (Armenian:Լոմավրենlomavren) is a nearly extinctmixed language spoken by theLom people, that arose fromlanguage contact between a language related toRomani andDomari[2] and theArmenian language. The language is also known asBosa andBosha.[3]
It lacksgrammatical gender and has sevengrammatical cases; its grammar is closely related to that of theErzurum dialect of Armenian, with the vocabulary being almost exclusivelyIndic.
Numerals in theRomani,Domari andLomavren languages, withSanskrit,Hindi,Odia,Bengali,Persian andSinhala forms for comparison.[2] AlsoGreek andLatin included.
| Numbers | Sanskrit | Mitanni Aryan | Hindi | Odia | Bengali | Romani | Domari | Lomavren | Greek | Persian | Sinhala | Latin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | éka | aika- (a-i-ka-) | ēk | ēkå | æk | ekh, jekh | yika | yak, yek | éna | yak, yek | eka | ūnus, ūna, ūnum |
| 2 | dvá | dō | dui | dui | duj | dī | lui | dýo | du, do | deka | duo, duae, duo | |
| 3 | trí | tera-? (ti-e-ra-) | tīn | tini | tin | trin | tærən | tərin | tría | se | thuna/thri | trēs, tria |
| 4 | catvā́raḥ | cār | cāri | char | štar | štar | išdör | téssera | čahār | hathara/sathara | quattuor | |
| 5 | páñca | pańća-? (pa-an-za-) | pā̃c | pāñcå | panch | pandž | pandž | pendž | pénte | pandž | paha | quīnque |
| 6 | ṣáṭ | chaḥ | chåå | chhoy | šov | šaš | šeš | éxi | šeš | haya/saya | sex | |
| 7 | saptá | satta (ša-at-ta) | sāt | sātå | sāt | ifta | xaut | haft | eptá | haft | hata/satha | septem |
| 8 | aṣṭá | āṭh | āṭhå | āṭh | oxto | xaišt | hašt | októ | hašt | ata | octō | |
| 9 | náva | nāva- (na-a-[w]a-) | nau | nåå | noy | inja | na | nu | ennéa | noh | nawaya | novem |
| 10 | dáśa | das | dåśå | dosh | deš | des | las | déka | dah | dahaya | decem | |
| 20 | viṃśatí | bīs | kōṛiē | bish | biš | wīs | vist | eíkosi | bist | wissa | vīgintī | |
| 100 | śatá | sau | śåhē | eksho | šel | saj | saj | ekató | sad | siiya/shathakaya | centum |