Omotik language

Not to be confused with Omotic languages.

Omotik (Sawas) is a moribund Nilotic language of Kenya. It is spoken by the hunter-gatherer Omotik people of the Great Rift Valley among the Maasai; most of the Omotik population has shifted to the Maasai language.

Omotik
Laamoot
Native to	Kenya
Region	Great Rift Valley
Ethnicity	200 Omotiks (2020)[1]
Native speakers	(50 older adults cited 1980)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Southern Eastern Nilotic Southern Omotik–Datooga Omotik
Language codes
ISO 639-3	omt
Glottolog	omot1239
ELP	Omotik