The North Omotic (Nomotic) or Ta-Ne Omotic languages, belong to the
Omotic
The Omotic languages are a group of languages spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, in the Omo River region. The Ge'ez script is used to write some of the Omotic languages, the Latin script for some others. They are fairly agglutinative and have com ...
branch of the
Afro-Asiatic family
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in the geographic su ...
and are spoken in
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
.
Dizoid is left out in later classifications, but included in earlier ones.
A relatively comprehensive comparative word list is given in
Václav Blažek
Václav Blažek (born 23 April 1959 in Sokolov, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech historical linguist. He is a professor at Masaryk University
Masaryk University (MU) ( cs, Masarykova univerzita; la, Universitas Masarykiana Brunensis) is the seco ...
(2008).
[Blažek, Václav. 2008. A lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages. In Bengtson (ed.), 57–148.]
Subdivisions
The four Ta-Ne Omotic (North Omotic) subdivisions given by Güldemann (2018) are:
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Ometo-''
C’ara''
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Gimira'' (''
Bench'')
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Gonga
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Yemsa'' (''Yem'')
Numerals
Comparison of numerals in individual languages:
Notes
Languages of Ethiopia
Language families
Omotic languages
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