Native to Kenya ISO 639-3 omt | Ethnicity 200 Omotiks (2000) | |
Region Great Rift Valley, Kenya Native speakers (50 older adults cited 1980) Language family Nilo-Saharan?
Eastern Sudanic
Kir–Abbaian
Nilotic
Southern Nilotic
Omotik–Datooga
Omotik | ||
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
Omotik language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA