Omotic is an English word with synonyms like afroasiatic or afrasian. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Omotic in a sentence
Omotic meaning
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.
Synonyms of Omotic
Using Omotic
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: afroasiatic, afro-asiatic, afroasiatic language, afrasian.
- In the example corpus, omotic often appears in combinations such as: omotic and, south omotic, the omotic.
Context around Omotic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 15.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Omotic
- In this selection, "omotic" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 15.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, south, divides, north, languages, generally and speakers stand out and add context to how "omotic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include omotic languages are and abandoned with omotic generally agreed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "omotic" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with omotic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He places Ongota in South Omotic. (6 words)
Omotic: a new Afroasiatic language family. (6 words)
Omotic speakers domesticated enset around 6500 5500 BCE. (8 words)
However, this view has largely been abandoned, with Omotic generally agreed to be an independent branch of Afroasiatic, primarily due to the work of Harold C. Fleming (1974) and M. Lionel Bender (1975). (33 words)
He thus divided Afroasiatic into two major branches, Omotic and Erythraean, with Erythraean consisting of three sub-branches, Cushitic, Chadic-Berber-Egyptian-Semitic-Beja, and Ongota. (26 words)
According to Ehret (1996), tonal languages appear in the Omotic and Chadic branches of Afroasiatic, as well as in certain Cushitic languages. (22 words)
Example sentences (12)
He divides Omotic into two branches, North Omotic and South Omotic.
According to Ehret (1996), tonal languages appear in the Omotic and Chadic branches of Afroasiatic, as well as in certain Cushitic languages.
He places Ongota in South Omotic.
He regards Chadic and Omotic as the branches of Afroasiatic most remote from the others.
He thus divided Afroasiatic into two major branches, Omotic and Erythraean, with Erythraean consisting of three sub-branches, Cushitic, Chadic-Berber-Egyptian-Semitic-Beja, and Ongota.
However, this view has largely been abandoned, with Omotic generally agreed to be an independent branch of Afroasiatic, primarily due to the work of Harold C. Fleming (1974) and M. Lionel Bender (1975).
Omotic: a new Afroasiatic language family.
Omotic languages are also spoken, though their classification is uncertain.
Omotic languages are an exception in having both contour and register tones.
Omotic speakers domesticated enset around 6500 5500 BCE.
Otherwise: * Paul Newman (1980) groups Berber with Chadic and Egyptian with Semitic, while questioning the inclusion of Omotic in Afroasiatic.
Tonal languages are also found in the Omotic, Chadic, and South & East Cushitic branches of Afroasiatic.
Common combinations with omotic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: