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Omotik language

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Not to be confused with Omotic languages.
Omotik
Laamoot
Native toKenya
RegionGreat Rift Valley
Ethnicity200 Omotiks (2020)[1]
Native speakers
(50 older adults cited 1980)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3omt
Glottologomot1239
ELPOmotik

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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  1. ^ a b Omotik at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon


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