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Nilotic language of Kenya Not to be confused with Omotic languages.
Omotik
Laamoot
Native toKenya
RegionGreat Rift Valley
Ethnicity200 Omotiks (2020)
Native speakers(50 older adults cited 1980)
Language familyNilo-Saharan?
Language codes
ISO 639-3omt
Glottologomot1239
ELPOmotik

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. ^ Omotik at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) [REDACTED]
Languages of Kenya
Official languages
Indigenous
languages
Bantu
Cushitic
Nilo-Saharan
Immigrant languages
Sign languages
Urban languages
Eastern Sudanic languages
Part of the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family
Northern k languages
Nubian
Hill Nubian
Nara
Nyima
Taman
Southern n languages
Surmic
North
Southeast
Southwest
Eastern Jebel
Temein
Daju
Eastern
Western
NiloticLarge group listed below
Nilotic languages
Eastern
Bari
Teso–Turkana
Lotuko
Ongamo–Maa
Western
Dinka–Nuer
Luo
Northern
Southern
Burun
Southern
Kalenjin
Elgon
Nandi–Markweta
Okiek–Mosiro
Pökoot
Omotik–Datooga
Italics indicate extinct languages


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