Omotik language

Omotik
Omotik
Laamoot
Native to	Kenya
Region	Great Rift Valley
Ethnicity	200 Omotiks (2020)
Native speakers	(50 older adults cited 1980)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Southern Eastern Nilotic Southern Omotik–Datooga Omotik; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	omt
Glottolog	omot1239
ELP	Omotik

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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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[e25-1] Omotik at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

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