Omotic

adj

Omotic

adj

Etymology Named after the Omo River in Ethiopia, + -ic. The river's name could ultimately be from Ganza wá-ma, ó-má (“river”).

Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Of or pertaining to a language family, often grouped into the Afroasiatic language family, spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, some of which use the Ge'ez alphabet, and which are fairly agglutinative, with complex tonal systems.

Derived terms: Omoticist, Proto-Omotic

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