Omotik language

E864854

The Omotik language is a critically endangered Nilotic language spoken by a small community in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Omotik language canonical 1

Statements (28)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Sudanic language
Nilotic language
endangered language
language
continent Africa
country Kenya
endangermentStatus critically endangered
hasAlternativeName Omotik NERFINISHED
Sengwer-Omotik NERFINISHED
hasEthnicPopulation Omotik people NERFINISHED
hasVeryFewSpeakers true
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isMinorityLanguageIn Kenya NERFINISHED
ISO639-3Code omt
isSubjectOf endangered language documentation efforts
languageFamily Nilo-Saharan languages
Nilotic languages NERFINISHED
Southern Nilotic languages NERFINISHED
primaryWordOrder SVO
region Rift Valley Province NERFINISHED
spokenBy Omotik people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Great Rift Valley NERFINISHED
Kenya NERFINISHED
subclassOf Southern Nilotic language
threatenedBy language shift to English
language shift to Maasai
language shift to Swahili
usedFor oral communication

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Omotik–Datooga languages hasMember Omotik language