Omotic languages
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The Omotic languages are a group of languages spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, in the Omo River region and southeastern Sudan in Blue Nile State. The Geʽez script is used to write some of the Omotic languages, the Latin script for some others. They are fairly agglutinative and have complex tonal systems (for example, the Bench language). The languages have around 7.9 million speakers.[1] The group is generally classified as belonging to the Afroasiatic language family, but this is disputed by some.
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Omotic | |||||
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Geographic distribution | Ethiopia, Sudan | ||||
Native speakers | 7.9 million | ||||
Linguistic classification | Afro-Asiatic
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Proto-language | Proto-Omotic | ||||
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ISO 639-5 | omv | ||||
Glottolog | None | ||||
Omotic languages:
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Four separate "Omotic" groups are accepted by Glottolog 4.0 and Güldemann (2018): North Omotic, Dizoid (Maji), Mao, and Aroid ("South Omotic").[2]