Omotic Languages

Omotic Languages


Nilo-Saharan Afro-Asiatic

The Omotic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic family spoken in southwestern Ethiopia. The Ge'ez alphabet is used to write some Omotic languages, the Roman alphabet for some others. They are fairly agglutinative, and have complex tonal systems (see Bench language).

Read more about Omotic Languages:  Language List, Classification

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