The North Omotic, Ta-Ne Omotic languages or Damotic languages are a group of languages spoken in

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considers Ta-Ne-Omotic to be an independent

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, whereas older classifications may link it to the

Omotic The Omotic languages are a group of languages spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, in the Omo River region and southeastern Sudan in Blue Nile State. The Geʽez script is used to write some of the Omotic languages, the Latin script for some others. T ...

branch of the Afro-Asiatic family, though this affiliation is disputed. Dizoid is left out in later classifications, but included in earlier ones. A relatively comprehensive comparative word list is given in

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(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: * Ometo-'' C’ara'' *'' Gimira'' ('' Bench'') * Gonga *'' Yemsa'' (''Yem'')

Numerals

Comparison of numerals in individual languages:

Notes

Languages of Ethiopia Language families Omotic languages {{AfroAsiatic-lang-stub