Lomavren ( hy, Լոմավրեն ') is a nearly extinct

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spoken by the

Lom people The Lom people or tr, Lomlar, also known in tr, Poşa as (Bosha or Posha) by non-Loms ( hy, Բոշա, ka, ბოშა, tr; russian: Боша) or Romani (russian: армянские цыгане; hy, հայ գնչուներ) or Caucasian Ro ...

, that arose from

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between a language related to

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and

Domari Domari is an endangered Indo-Aryan language, spoken by Dom people scattered across the Middle East and North Africa. The language is reported to be spoken as far north as Azerbaijan and as far south as central Sudan, in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pal ...

and the

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Names

The language is also known as ''Bosa/Bosha''.

Linguistic features

It lacks grammatical gender and has seven

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s; its grammar is closely related to that of the Erzerum dialect of Armenian, with the vocabulary being almost exclusively Indic.

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in the

and Lomavren languages, with

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, Persian and Sinhala forms for comparison. Also Greek and Latin included.

References

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