Omotik language

Not to be confused with Omotic languages.
Omotik
Laamoot
Native to Kenya
Region Great Rift Valley, Kenya
Ethnicity 200 Omotiks (2000)[1]
Native speakers
(50 older adults cited 1980)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 omt
Glottolog omot1239[2]

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

  1. 1 2 Omotik at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Omotik". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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