Search results
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.
- None
- Afro-AsiaticOmotic
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 by Cushitic languages, the Omotic languages were once classified as the (now discarded) West ...
People also ask
What are Omotic languages?
Are Omotic languages related to Proto-Afro-Asiatic languages?
What phylum does Omotic language belong to?
Is Omotic a branch of Afro-Asiatic?
Aug 28, 2022 · List: ·^ Bender, Lionel M. 1987. "First Steps Toward proto-Omotic." Current Approaches to African Linguistics 3 (1987): 21-36
The linguistic evidence presented here specifically confirms that "ensete" served as a food source from the Proto-Omotic period onward. The Proto-Omotic language possessed at least two terms referring to parts of the plant, one of which may have applied specifically to the edible corm and inner stalk, along with terms for tools uniquely used in ...
- Shiferaw Alemu Assefa
- 2011
Proto-Omotic is a reconstructed language. Its words and roots are not directly attested in any written works, but have been reconstructed through the comparative method, which finds regular similarities between languages that cannot be explained by coincidence or word-borrowing, and extrapolates ancient forms from these similarities.
- Proto-Afroasiatic
- omv-pro
- Proto-Omotic
- Omotic languages
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 ...
In section 26.2, some salient features from the phonology of Omotic languages are presented. A survey of the lexical and morphological cate-gories of Omotic languages is made in section 26.3.
