Omotik language explained

Omotik language should not be confused with Omotic languages.

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.