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Omotic

Omotic adjective: 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.

Adjective

Omotic (comparative more Omotic, superlative most Omotic)

  1. 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.

Forms of Omotic

comparativemore Omotic
superlativemost Omotic

Origin of Omotic

Named after the Omo River in Ethiopia, + -ic. The river's name could ultimately be from Ganza wá-ma, ó-má (“river”).

Words formed from Omotic

Questions about Omotic

What does Omotic mean?
Omotic means 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.
What part of speech is Omotic?
Omotic is an adjective.

Words near Omotic in the dictionary

  1. omosterna
  2. omosternal
  3. omosternum
  4. omosudid
  5. omosudids
  6. Omotic
  7. Omoticist
  8. Omoticists
  9. Omotik
  10. Omoto
  11. OMOV

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