Omotik language

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Not to be confused with Omotic languages.
Omotik
Laamoot
Native toKenya
RegionGreat Rift Valley, Kenya
Ethnicity200 Omotiks (2000)[1]
Native speakers
(50 older adults cited 1980)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3omt
Glottologomot1239
ELPOmotik

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. ^ a b Omotik at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)


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