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Ometo. Neighboring languages: Nilo-Saharan. Afroasiatic. 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 Geʽez script is used to write some of the Omotic languages, the Latin script for some others.
Lower-order reconstructions. Proto-Berber. Proto-Chadic. Proto-Cushitic. Proto-Omotic. Proto-Semitic. Archaic Egyptian. Proto-Afroasiatic ( PAA ), also known as Proto-Hamito-Semitic, Proto-Semito-Hamitic, and Proto-Afrasian, is the reconstructed proto-language from which all modern Afroasiatic languages are descended.
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Natufian culture (/ n ə ˈ t uː f i ə n /) is a Late Epipaleolithic archaeological culture of the Neolithic prehistoric Levant in Western Asia, dating to around 15,000 to 11,500 years ago. The culture was unusual in that it supported a sedentary or semi-sedentary population even before the introduction of agriculture .
Omotic languages, family of about 40 languages spoken in western Ethiopia. Although most scholars assign them to the Afro-Asiatic language phylum, this classification is subject to ongoing debate: because their speakers were for many years very little known and reside in regions that are dominated.
The Omotic language family belongs to those entities within the Afro-Asiatic phylum which are controversially debated. With regard to external classification some authors maintain that Omotic should be subsumed under the western branch of Cushitic, whereas others place it directly under Afro-Asiatic—besides Cushitic, Chadic, Semitic, Egyptian ...
Proto-Berber or Proto-Libyan is the reconstructed proto-language from which the modern Berber languages stem. Proto-Berber was an Afroasiatic language, and as such, its descendant Berber languages are cousins to the Egyptian language, Cushitic languages, Semitic languages, Chadic languages, and the Omotic languages. 1. History.
First Steps Toward proto-Omotic. Current Approaches to African Linguistics 3 (1987): 21-36. Title. Bender, Lionel M. First Steps Toward proto-Omotic. Current ...
