Omaio language

Omaio
Kakesio–Makao Dorobo
Region Tanzania
Native speakers
 2 (2014)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog kake1234[2]

Omaio (Omaiyo) is an obscure "Dorobo" language of Tanzania. The people were expelled from the Serengeti in the 1950s to make way for the park. As of 2014, two elders remembered the language, though it had not been spoken since they were children, and two others remembered some words and phrases. From the few hundred words and phrases that have been collected, the language is not obviously related to anything else, and is thus a potential language isolate.

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Notes

  1. ↑ David Peterson (2014) "Field Notes from a visit to Mwiba, November 20–22, 2014"
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kakesio Dorobo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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