Western Omo–Tana languages

Western Omo–Tana
Omo–Tana
Geographic
distribution:
Ethiopia, Kenya
Linguistic classification:

Afro-Asiatic

Subdivisions:
Glottolog: west2723[1]

The (Western) Omo–Tana languages belong to the Afro-Asiatic family and are spoken in Ethiopia and Kenya. The El Molo language of Kenya is nearly extinct.[2]

Notes

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Western Omo–Tana". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.


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