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: | OmotikâDatooga |
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.