Omotik language
Nilotic language of Kenya
| Omotik | |
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| Laamoot | |
| Native to | Kenya |
| Region | Great Rift Valley, Kenya |
| Ethnicity | 200 Omotiks (2020)[1] |
Native speakers | (50 older adults cited 1980)[1] |
Language family | Nilo-Saharan?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | omt |
| Glottolog | omot1239 |
| ELP | Omotik |
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.
References
- ^ a b Omotik at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
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