Western Omo–Tana languages

The (Western) Omo–Tana or Arboroid languages belong to the Afro-Asiatic family and are spoken in Ethiopia and Kenya.

Western Omo–Tana
Omo–Tana
Arboroid
Geographic
distribution
Ethiopia, Kenya
Linguistic classificationAfro-Asiatic
Subdivisions
Glottologwest2723

The languages are:

The first three have long been recognized as related; Bender (2020) adds Yaaku, whose classification had been obscure.[1] The El Molo language of Kenya is nearly extinct.[2]

Notes

  1. Bender, M. Lionel. (2020). Cushitic Lexicon and Phonology. ed. Grover Hudson. (Schriften zur Afrikanistik / Research in African Studies, 28). Berlin: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-631-60089-4
  2. Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.


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