Omotik

E247227

Omotik is a critically endangered Southern Nilotic language spoken by a small community in Kenya.

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Label Occurrences
Omotik canonical 2

Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Southern Nilotic language
critically endangered language
language
branchOf Eastern Sudanic languages
Nilo-Saharan languages
country Kenya
documentationStatus poorly documented
endangerment severely threatened
ethnicity Omotik people
glottocode omot1246
hasAlternativeName Sogoo
hasLinguisticTypology SVO word order (subject–verb–object)
tone language
hasMorphologicalFeature noun class or gender distinctions
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant length (gemination)
vowel length contrast
hasWordOrder SVO
isClassifiedBy Ethnologue
Glottolog
isFocusOf language preservation efforts
ISO639-3 omt
languageFamily Nilotic languages
numberOfSpeakers very few
region Rift Valley Province
relatedTo Datooga
Kalenjin languages
spokenBy small community in Kenya
spokenIn Kenya
status critically endangered
subfamily Southern Nilotic languages
surface form: Southern Nilotic
threatenedBy language shift to English
language shift to Maasai
language shift to Swahili
usedFor daily communication within the Omotik community
usedInDomain oral tradition
traditional rituals
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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