omotic
IPA: oʊmˈɑtɪk
Root Word: Omotic
adjective
- (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a language family, often grouped into the Afroasiatic language family, spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, some of which use the Ge'ez alphabet, and which are fairly agglutinative, with complex tonal systems.
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Examples of "omotic" in Sentences
- Many of the Omotic tone systems are quite complex.
- These scholars consider Omotic to be an independent branch of Afroasiatic.
- They share the SOV structure of Omotic and a number of other early features.
- It is a member of the Omotic group of languages, most closely related to Kaffa.
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