Omotik (language)
| Omotics | ||
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Spoken in |
Kenya | |
| speaker | approx. 50 (as of 1980) | |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | - | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -2 |
omt |
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Omotik (own name: laamot ) is a practically extinct South Nilotic ( Nilosaharan ) language that was spoken in Kenya .
Most of the speakers of the language have switched to the East Nilotic Maa . The ethnic population of omotics speakers was at least 200 in 2000.
annotation
The Omotik Language should not be confused with the Omotic languages , the English Omotic languages hot and to the family of Afro-Asiatic languages include.
literature
- Franz Rottland: The South Nilotic languages: description, comparison and reconstruction . Reimer, Berlin 1982.