Omotik language

Omotik
	Laamoot
Native to	Kenya
Region	Great Rift Valley, Kenya
Ethnicity	200 Omotiks (2000)[1]
Native speakers	(50 older adults cited 1980)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Nilotic Southern Nilotic Omotik-Datooga Omotik; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	omt
Glottolog	omot1239[2]

Omotik (Sawas) 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

Omotik at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Omotik". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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