Omotik language
Omotik (Sawas) is a moribund Nilotic language of Kenya. It is spoken by the hunter-gatherer Omotik people of the Great Rift Valley among the Maasai; most of the Omotik population has shifted to the Maasai language.
| Omotik | |
|---|---|
| Laamoot | |
| Native to | Kenya |
| Region | Great Rift Valley, Kenya |
| Ethnicity | 200 Omotiks (2000)[1] |
Native speakers | (50 older adults cited 1980)[1] |
Nilo-Saharan?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | omt |
| Glottolog | omot1239[2] |
References
- Omotik at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Omotik". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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