The Omotic languages are a group of languages spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, in the Omo River region and southeastern Sudan in Blue Nile State. The...
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The North Omotic (Nomotic) or Ta-Ne Omotic languages, are a group of languages spoken in Ethiopia. Glottolog considers Ta-Ne-Omotic to be an independent...
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the Omotic Wolaitta language, though most languages within the family are much smaller in size. There are many well-attested Afroasiatic languages from...
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Omotic or Somotic) languages possibly belong to the Afro-Asiatic family and are spoken in Ethiopia. There are five Aroid languages: Aroid languages Aari-Gayil...
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and Semitic, 19th and 20th centuries for many Chadic, Cushitic, and Omotic languages) mean that determining sound correspondences has not yet been possible...
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indicate focus. The phylum was first designated as Cushitic in 1858. The Omotic languages, once included in Cushitic, have almost universally been removed. The...
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M. & F. Serzisko (eds), Cushitic-Omotic: Papers from the International Symposium on Cushitic and Omotic Languages. St. Augustin, Jan. 6-9 1986. Hamburg...
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The Ometo languages of Ethiopia are a dialect cluster of the Omotic family, generally accepted as part of the Afro-Asiatic language family. They include...
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The Mao languages are a branch of the Omotic languages spoken in Ethiopia and parts of Sudan. The group had the following categories: Bambasi, spoken in...
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Omotic, Chadic and the position of Kujarge Archived 2019-12-22 at the Wayback Machine. 5th International Conference of Cushitic and Omotic languages....
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Cushitic, and Omotic languages of the Afro-Asiatic phylum, Berber languages are not tonal languages. "Tamazight" and "Berber languages" are often used...
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speakers[citation needed] are using the Karo language. In percentages of basic vocabulary scored by 14 Omotic languages against 13 others, Karo scored 12 in Male...
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Bussa variety are shifting to the Omotic languages Zargulla, Zayse and Gamo. Important factors for the ongoing language shift include intermarriage with...
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Wolaitta or Wolayttatto Doonaa is a North Omotic language of the Ometo group spoken in the Wolayita Zone and some other parts of the Southern Nations...
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four languages Hozo, Seze, Ganza and Northern Mao is still being discussed. The Mao languages are the least documented within Omotic, and Omotic itself...
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spelled Male) is an Omotic language spoken in the Omo Region of Ethiopia. The Maale people are vigorously maintaining their language despite exposure to...
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or Hamer-Banna (Hamer: hámar aapó) is a language within the South Omotic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. It is spoken primarily in southern...
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The languages of Ethiopia include the official languages of Ethiopia, its national and regional languages, and a large number of minority languages, as...
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Tone (linguistics) (redirect from Tonal languages)
typically 1 is high and 5 is low, except in Omotic languages, where 1 is low and 5 or 6 is high. In languages with just two tones, 1 may be high and 2 low...
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are cousins to the Egyptian language, Cushitic languages, Semitic languages, Chadic languages, and the Omotic languages. Proto-Berber shows features...
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Hamar-Banna language (a member of the putative Southern branch of the Omotic languages), although some also speak the related Aari language in and around...
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Amharic (redirect from Amharic (language))
and proto-Omotic languages would have diverged by the fourth or fifth millennium BC. Shortly afterwards, the proto-Cushitic and proto-Omotic groups would...
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Proto-Afroasiatic homeland (category Afroasiatic languages)
language, on the verge of a split into daughter languages", meaning, in his scenario, into "Cushitic, Omotic, Egyptian, Semitic and Chadic-Berber", "should...
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(Bencnon, Shenon or Mernon, formerly called Gimira) is a Northern Omotic language of the "Gimojan" subgroup, spoken by about 174,000 people (in 1998)...
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Eritrea, including the Ethio-Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic languages but not the Nilo-Saharan languages. Others scholars have since pointed out smaller areas...
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Ubangian, some 70 languages, centered on the languages of the Central African Republic; may be Niger–Congo Te-Ne-Omotic, some 20 languages, previously classified...
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is the language of the Yem people of the former Kingdom of Yamma, known as the Kingdom of Janjero traditionally. It is a member of the Omotic group of...
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Bambassi (native name: Màwés Aasʼè) is an Omotic Afroasiatic language spoken in Ethiopia around the towns of Bambasi and Didessa in the area east of Asosa...
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Shinasha, also known as Boro (Borna, Bworo) is a North Omotic language spoken in western Ethiopia by the Shinasha people. Its speakers live in scattered...
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Blue Nile State (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
language Kelo language Molo language Nilotic languages Burun language Jumjum language Omotic languages Ganza language Koman languages Komo language Gule...
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