Lomavren language

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Lomavren
Lomavren'
Spoken in	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Syria [1]
Total speakers	50[2]
Language family	Indo-European mixed language Lomavren
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	–
ISO 639-3	rmi
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v • d • e History of the Armenian language see also: Armenian alphabet Armenian hypothesis Proto-Armenian Graeco-Armenian / Helleno-Armenian Old Armenian (from 405) Middle Armenian (c. 1100 – 1700) Modern Armenian (c. 1700 – present) Eastern, Western familliar: Homshetsi, Lomavren

Lomavren is a mixed language, spoken by the Lom people, or Posha. It appeared at the contact between the proto-Romani language and the Armenian language. It lacks a grammatical gender having 7 grammatical cases; its grammar is closely related to Armenian, with the vocabulary being almost exclusively Indic.

Numerals in the Romani, Lomavren and Domari languages, with Hindi forms for comparison.^[3]

	Hindi	Romani	Lomavren	Domari
1	ek	ekh, jekh	yak, yek	yika
2	do	duj	lui	dī
3	tin	trin	tərin	tærən
4	chhar	štar	išdör	štar
5	panch	pandž	pendž	pandž
6	cheh	šov	šeš	šaš
7	saath	ifta	haft	xaut
8	aath	oxto	hašt	xaišt
9	nau	inja	nu	na
10	das	deš	las	des
20	bees	biš	vist	wīs
100	sau	šel	saj	saj

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