Lomavren language

Alternative names (including historical names and autoglottonyms): language of Armenian Gypsies, dialect of Gypsies of Armenia

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Genealogy

Indo-European → Indo-Iranian → Indo-Aryan

Geography

Main country: Armenia (show on the map)

Identifiers

Glottolog: loma1235
ISO-639-3: rmi

Features

Phonemic structure

[A‑1]	Number of degrees of vowel height	Three [A‑1‑2]
[A‑2]	Vowel height degrees	Close, mid and open [A‑2‑3]
[A‑3]	Degrees of vowel backness	Front, central and back [A‑3‑4]
[A‑5]	Vowel opposition in labialization	No vowel opposition in labialization [A‑5‑1]
[A‑6]	Vowel opposition in nasalization	No vowel opposition in nasalization [A‑6‑1]
[A‑7]	Vowel opposition in pharyngealization	No vowel opposition in pharyngealization [A‑7‑1]
[A‑8]	Vowel opposition in ATR	No vowel opposition in ATR [A‑8‑1]
[A‑9]	Diphthongs and triphthongs	No diphthongs and triphthongs [A‑9‑1]
[A‑11]	Inventory of obstruents by laryngeal features	Opposition by voice presence/absence and by aspiration [A‑11‑6]
[A‑12]	Inventory of obstruents by manner of articulation	Plosives, fricatives and affricates [A‑12‑3]
[A‑13]	Inventory of obstruents by place of articulation	Labial, coronal, dorsal, guttural and postuvular [A‑13‑2]
[A‑14]	Inventory of labial obstruents by place of articulation	Only bilabial [A‑14‑1]
[A‑15]	Inventory of coronal obstruents by place of articulation	Dental [A‑15‑1]
[A‑16]	Inventory of guttural obstruents by place of articulation	Velar [A‑16‑1]
[A‑17]	Inventory of postuvular obstruents by place of articulation	Only glottal [A‑17‑2]
[A‑18]	Additional articulatory oppositions of obstruents	Absent [A‑18‑1]
[A‑19]	Inventory of sonorants by manner of articulation	Nasal, liquid, vibrant and glide [A‑19‑6]
[A‑20]	Inventory of sonorants by place of articulation	Labial, coronal and dorsal [A‑20‑14]
[A‑21]	Additional articulatory oppositions of sonorants	Absent [A‑21‑1]

Prosodic phenomena

[B‑1]	Stress character	Phonological [B‑1‑2]
[B‑2]	Stress type	Dynamic [B‑2‑1]
[B‑3]	Stress carrier	Syllable [B‑3‑1]
[B‑4]	Stress fixedness	Single-place fixed [B‑4‑1]
[B‑5]	Fixed stress carrier	Ultima [B‑5‑4]
[B‑6]	Number of tone levels	No tones [B‑6‑4]

Syllable

No filled features for this language.

Phonologic structure and phenomena

No filled features for this language.

Morphological type of language

[E‑1]	Type of language by type of morpheme combination in a word	Agglutinative with some fusional features [E‑1‑2]
[E‑4]	Type of language by degree of morpheme cohesion	Synthetic [E‑4‑5]

Nominal classifications

[F‑1]	Number of agreement classes	No agreement classes [F‑1‑1]
[F‑7]	Nouns classifying categories	Absent [F‑7‑1]

Number

[G‑1]	Number in nouns	Singular and plural [G‑1‑1]
[G‑2]	Single number marking	Unmarked [G‑2‑2]
[G‑3]	Honorific forms in pronouns and verbs	Absent [G‑3‑1]
[G‑4]	Agreement in number	No agreement in number [G‑4‑1]

Case meanings

[H‑1]	Number of noun cases	Three-seven [H‑1‑2]
[H‑2]	Subject and object marking	Case affixes [H‑2‑3]
[H‑6]	Means of expressing spatial relations	Noun affixes and postpositions [H‑6‑11]
[H‑8]	Case marking of animate and inanimate nouns	Same [H‑8‑1]

Verbal categories

[I‑5]	Tense forms	Past [I‑5‑1]
[I‑5]	Tense forms	Present [I‑5‑2]
[I‑5]	Tense forms	Future [I‑5‑3]
[I‑6]	Aspect and tense expression	Separate [I‑6‑1]
[I‑7]	Expression of tense categories	Auxiliary verbs and affixes [I‑7‑3]
[I‑9]	Marking of person in present tense verbs	In singular and plural [I‑9‑3]
[I‑10]	Transitivity marker	Absent [I‑10‑1]

Deictic categories

[J‑2]	Expression of deictic categories	Demonstrative pronouns [J‑2‑1]
[J‑3]	Function words expressing spatial orientation of action	Prepositions [J‑3‑3]
[J‑5]	Morphological expression of (in)definiteness	Noun affixes [J‑5‑2]

Parts of speech and inflection

[K‑1]	Personal pronouns inflection	Pronominal inflection type [K‑1‑3]
[K‑2]	Article types	Definite and indefinite [K‑2‑4]
[K‑3]	Indefinite article and numeral 'one'	Different [K‑3‑2]
[K‑4]	Article place	Postposition [K‑4‑2]
[K‑5]	Position of article in noun phrase	Single article preceding the phrase [K‑5‑1]
[K‑6]	Grammar categories of article	Definiteness [K‑6‑2]
[K‑7]	Number of conjugation types	Single type of conjugation [K‑7‑1]
[K‑8]	Verb agreement types	Subject [K‑8‑2]
[K‑12]	Agreement categories expressed in adjective	Absent [K‑12‑1]
[K‑14]	Attribute agreement of adjectives	Absent [K‑14‑2]
[K‑16]	Inflectional categories of noun	Number and case [K‑16‑7]
[K‑17]	Cumulative expression of several categories in noun	Number and case [K‑17‑6]
[K‑18]	Inflection means	Affixes [K‑18‑2]
[K‑19]	Word form model	Prefixal-suffixal [K‑19‑1]

Word formation

[L‑1]	Word formation means	Derivation and compounding [L‑1‑12]
[L‑2]	Derivation affixes	Prefixes and suffixes [L‑2‑3]

Simple sentence

[M‑1]	Morphosyntactic alignment	Accusative [M‑1‑3]
[M‑2]	Word order fixedness	Relatively free [M‑2‑3]
[M‑3]	Dominant word order	SOV [M‑3‑2]
[M‑4]	Order of nouns and its modifier	Modifier precedes noun [M‑4‑1]

Complex sentence

[N‑4]	Compound sentence types	Subordination, compounding and clause chaining [N‑4‑5]
[N‑5]	Compound sentence syndesis and asyndeton	Both syndesis and asyndeton possible [N‑5‑3]

Unfilled features