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 ...

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 Er ...

. 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 (Brno, Czech Republic) and also teaches at the University of West Bohemia ( Pilsen, Czech Republic). His majo ...

(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: * Ometo-'' C’ara'' *'' Gimira'' ('' Bench'') * Gonga *'' Yemsa'' (''Yem'')

Numerals

Comparison of numerals in individual languages:

Notes

Languages of Ethiopia Language families Omotic languages {{AfroAsiatic-lang-stub