The North Omotic (Nomotic) or Ta-Ne Omotic languages, belong to the
Omotic 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 su ...
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 ...
.
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 ma ...
(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:
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Ometo-''
C’ara''
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Gimira'' (''
Bench'')
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Gonga
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Yemsa'' (''Yem'')
Numerals
Comparison of numerals in individual languages:
Notes
Languages of Ethiopia
Language families
Omotic languages
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