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OmoTana languages






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Omo–Tana
(disputed)
Geographic
distribution
Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya
Linguistic classificationAfro-Asiatic
Subdivisions
Glottologomot1245

The Omo–Tana languages are a branch of the Cushitic family and are spoken in Ethiopia, Djibouti, 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]

Internal classification[edit]

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).

  • Omo-Tana
    • Western ("Galaboid" or "Arboroid") branch
  • Arbore
  • Elmolo
  • Yaaku
  • Eastern ("Somaloid") branch
  • References[edit]

  • ^ Vossen, Rainer; Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. (2020-03-19). The Oxford Handbook of African Languages. Oxford University Press. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-19-100737-8.
  • ^ Tosco, Mauro (2012). The Unity and Diversity of Somali Dialectal Variants. In: Nathan Oyori Ogechi, Jane A. Ngala Oduor and Peter Iribemwangi (eds.), The Harmonization and Standardization of Kenyan Languages. Orthography and other aspects. Cape Town: The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS): 2012: 263–280.

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