Omotic

Speech parts

1. Omotic - Noun

2. Omotic - Adjective

Meaning

a group of related languages spoken in a valley of southern Ethiopia; closely related to Cushitic languages

Source: WordNet

Hypernyms

Afroasiatic Afro-Asiatic Hamito-Semitic Afrasian Afrasian language Afroasiatic language

Phrases with the word

Proto-Omotic

Anagrams

Comito

Examples

According to Ehret (1996), tonal languages appear in the Omotic and Chadic branches of Afroasiatic, as well as in certain Cushitic languages. Source: Internet

He regards Chadic and Omotic as the branches of Afroasiatic most remote from the others. Source: Internet

He thus divided Afroasiatic into two major branches, Omotic and Erythraean, with Erythraean consisting of three sub-branches, Cushitic, Chadic-Berber-Egyptian-Semitic-Beja, and Ongota. Source: Internet

He divides Omotic into two branches, North Omotic and South Omotic. Source: Internet

He places Ongota in South Omotic. Source: Internet

However, Christopher Ehret (1979), Harold Fleming (1981), and Joseph Greenberg (1981) all agree that the Omotic branch split from the rest first. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

omosternal omosternum omosudid Omoticist Omotik Omoto