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Ometo languages

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Omotic dialect cluster of Ethiopia

Ometo
Geographic distribution	Ethiopia
Linguistic classification	Afro-Asiatic Omotic North Ometo
Subdivisions	South East North
Language codes
Glottolog	`omet1238`

TheOmeto languages ofEthiopia are adialect cluster of theOmotic family, generally accepted as part of theAfro-Asiatic language family. They include the most populous Omotic language,Wolaytta, with two million speakers.^[1] The languages have around 4 million speakers.

Bender (2000) classifies them as,^[1]

Hayward (2003) added Basketo to Central Ometo and called the result 'North Ometo',^[2] a position followed by Blench (2006).

Blench (2006) lists several additional North Ometo languages, and listsChara as unclassified within the family.^[3]

North:Misketto (Basketto),Dokka,Doko-Dolo,Wolaitta (Welamo),Zala,Oyda,Malo,Dorze–Laha–Gamo–Gofa–Kullo-Konta–Dache,Ganjule,Gidicho,Kachama
East: Gatame (Haruro), Zayse (+Zergula),Koore/Koyra (Badittu)
South:Maale
?:Ch'ara

He also listsBalta, a regional name for Wolaytta, as a possibly separate language.

^^a ^bBender, M. Lionel. 2000.Comparative Morphology of the Omotic Languages. Munich: LINCOM. Classification copied in Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005.Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
^Hayward, Richard J. 2003. 'Omotic: the "empty quarter" of Afroasiatic linguistics'. InResearch in Afroasiatic Grammar II: selected papers from the fifth conference on Afroasiatic languages, Paris 2000, ed. by Jacqueline Lecarme, pp. 241-261. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
^Blench, 2006.The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List