Omotik language

Omotik language
Not to be confused with Omotic languages.
Omotik
Laamoot
Spoken in Kenya
Region Great Rift Valley
Ethnicity 200
Native speakers unknown (50 cited in 1980)
Language family
Nilo-Saharan?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 omt

Omotik is a Nilotic language of the Southern group. It is spoken by the hunter-gatherer Omotik people of the Great Rift Valley of Kenya among the Maasai; most of the Omotik population has shifted to the Maasai language.



Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Omotik (Sprache) — Omotik Gesprochen in Kenia Sprecher ca. 50 (Stand von 1980) Linguistische Klassifikation Nilo saharanische Sprachen Nilotische Sprachen Südnilotische Sprachen Omotik Datooga …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Omotik — ISO 639 3 Code : omt ISO 639 2/B Code : ISO 639 2/T Code : ISO 639 1 Code : Scope : Individual Language Type : Living …   Names of Languages ISO 639-3

  • Datooga language — Datooga Spoken in Tanzania Region Great Rift Valley Ethnicity Datooga Native speakers 90,000  (2000) Language family …   Wikipedia

  • List of extinct languages of Africa — This is a list of extinct languages of Africa, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant.Angola*KwadiThe omotik language was discovered in the early 1970sCameroon*Duli *Gey *Nagumi… …   Wikipedia

  • Omotic languages — Not to be confused with Omotik language. Omotic Geographic distribution: Ethiopia Linguistic classification: Afro Asiatic Omotic Subdivisions: North Omotic …   Wikipedia

  • List of African languages — This is a list of African languages by classification.ClassificationAfro Asiatic languages*Berber languages **Eastern Berber languages ***Awjila Sokna languages ****Awjilah language ****Sawknah language ***Siwi language **Northern Berber… …   Wikipedia

  • Maa — (Masai, Maasai, Lumbwa oder Kimaasai) Gesprochen in Kenia, Tansania Sprecher ca. 950.000 (Stand von 1994) Linguistische Klassifikation Nilo saharanische Sprachen Ostsudanische Sprachen …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • omt — ISO 639 3 Code of Language ISO 639 2/B Code : ISO 639 2/T Code : ISO 639 1 Code : Scope : Individual Language Type : Living Language Name : Omotik …   Names of Languages ISO 639-3

  • Dorobo peoples — Dorobo (or Ndorobo, Wadorobo, Torobo) is a derogatory umbrella term for several unrelated hunter gatherer groups of Kenya and Tanzania. In the past 150 years, many of these peoples have assimilated to the pastoralist economy of neighbouring… …   Wikipedia

  • Datooga (Sprache) — Datooga Gesprochen in Tansania Sprecher ca. 88.000 Linguistische Klassifikation Nilo saharanische Sprachen Nilotische Sprachen Südnilotische Sprachen Omotik Datooga …   Deutsch Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”