Omotic

adj

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    a group of related languages spoken in a valley of southern Ethiopia; closely related to Cushitic languages wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    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.

Example

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"The accepted branches of Afroasiatic are Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic, and Semitic."

Etymology

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

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Proto-Omoticge ezlanguage family

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