Omotik language

{{Short description|Nilotic language of Kenya}}

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{{Infobox language

| name = Omotik

| nativename = Laamoot

| states = Kenya

| region = Great Rift Valley

| ethnicity = 200 Omotiks (2020)

| speakers = 50 older adults

| date = 1980

| ref = e25

| familycolor = Nilo-Saharan

| fam2 = Eastern Sudanic

| fam3 = Southern Eastern

| fam4 = Nilotic

| fam5 = Southern

| fam6 = Omotik–Datooga

| iso3 = omt

| glotto = omot1239

| glottorefname = Omotik}}

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

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{{Languages of Kenya}}

{{Eastern Sudanic languages}}

Category:Southern Nilotic languages

Category:Languages of Kenya

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