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
 unknown (50 older adults cited 1980)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 omt
Glottolog omot1239[2]

Omotik 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. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Omotik". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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