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Omotik
Laamoot
Native toKenya
Region Great Rift Valley, Kenya
Ethnicity200 Omotiks (2020) [1]
Native speakers
(50 older adults cited 1980) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 omt
Glottolog omot1239
ELP 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

  1. ^ a b Omotik at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon