The Omo-Tana languages are a branch of the Cushitic family spoken in Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somaliland, Somalia and Kenya. The largest member is Somali. There is some debate over whether the Omo-Tana languages form a single group or are instead individual branches of Lowland East Cushitic; a 2006 study by Roger Blench restricts the name to the Western Omo-Tana languages and calls the others Macro-Somali.
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RegionEastern and southern Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somaliland, Somalia, Northeast Kenya, and a small sliver of South Sudan 2 Browse and compare
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1. Glottolog: Omo-Tana (languoid record)
GlottologLanguoid record: child_language_count
"child_language_count": 13
Languoid record: level and category
"level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
View the Source 2. Omo-Tana languages - Wikipedia
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Eastern and southern Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somaliland, Somalia, Northeast Kenya, and a small sliver of South Sudan
Wikidata: Omo-Tana languages
Wikidata Q1519102, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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