Omo–Tana languages
Cushitic family of languages spoken in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya
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The Omo–Tana languages are a branch of the Cushitic family and are spoken in Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somaliland, Somalia and Kenya. The largest member is Somali. There is some debate as to whether the Omo–Tana languages form a single group, or whether they are individual branches of Lowland East Cushitic. Blench (2006) restricts the name to the Western Omo–Tana languages, and calls the others Macro-Somali.[1][2]
distributionEastern and southern Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somaliland, Somalia, Northeast Kenya, and a small sliver of South Sudan
| Omo–Tana | |
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| Geographic distribution | Eastern and southern Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somaliland, Somalia, Northeast Kenya, and a small sliver of South Sudan |
| Linguistic classification | Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | omot1245 |
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Internal classification
Mauro Tosco (2012)[3] proposes the following internal classification of the Omo-Tana languages. Tosco considers Omo-Tama to consist of a Western branch and an Eastern ("Somaloid") branch, which is a dialect chain of various Somali languages and the Rendille–Boni languages (see also Macro-Somali languages).
