Ometo languages
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| Ometo | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
Ethiopia |
| Linguistic classification: | Afro-Asiatic |
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The Ometo languages of Ethiopia are a dialect cluster of the Omotic family, generally accepted as part of the Afro-Asiatic language family. They include the most populous Omotic language, Wolaytta, with two million speakers.[1]
Bender (2000) classifies them as,[1]
- South: Maale
- Basketo
- Central: Wolaytta (Ometo), Oyda (Oyta), Dorze, Melo (Malo), Gamo-Gofa-Dawro
- East: Gats'ame (Kachama-Ganjule), Koorete (Koyra, Harro), Zayse-Zergulla
Hayward (2003) added Basketo to Central Ometo and called the result 'North Ometo'.[2]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Bender, M. Lionel. 2000. Comparative Morphology of the Omotic Languages. Munich: LINCOM. Classification copied in Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
- ^ Hayward, Richard J. 2003. 'Omotic: the "empty quarter" of Afroasiatic linguistics'. In Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II: selected papers from the fifth conference on Afroasiatic languages, Paris 2000, ed. by Jacqueline Lecarme, pp. 241-261. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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