Omotic languages

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Omotic
Geographic distribution	Ethiopia, Sudan
Native speakers	7.9 million[1]
Linguistic classification	Afro-Asiatic Omotic
Proto-language	Proto-Omotic
Subdivisions	North Omotic South Omotic
ISO 639-5	omv
Glottolog	None
Omotic languages: South Omotic languages:   Aroid languages North Omotic languages:   Mao   Dizoid   Gonga (Kefoid)   Yemsa   Bench (Gimira)   Chara   Ometo Neighboring languages:   Nilo-Saharan   Afroasiatic

The Omotic languages are a group of languages spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, in the Omo River region and southeastern Sudan in Blue Nile State. The Geʽez script is used to write some of the Omotic languages, the Latin script for some others. They are fairly agglutinative and have complex tonal systems (for example, the Bench language). The languages have around 7.9 million speakers.^[1] The group is generally classified as belonging to the Afroasiatic language family, but this is disputed by some linguists.

Four separate "Omotic" groups are accepted by Glottolog 4.0 and Güldemann (2018): North Omotic, Dizoid (Maji), Mao, and Aroid ("South Omotic").^[2]