Omotik
NativenameLaamoot
StatesKenya
RegionGreat Rift Valley
Ethnicity200 Omotiks (2020)[1]
Speakers50 older adults
Date1980
Refe25
FamilycolorNilo-Saharan
Fam 2Eastern Sudanic
Fam 3Southern Eastern
Fam 4Nilotic
Fam 5Southern
Fam 6Omotik–Datooga
Iso 3omt
Glottoomot1239
GlottorefnameOmotik

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

  1. ^ e25