omotic

(noun, adjective)

adjective

1. (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a branch of 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.

noun

1. a group of related languages spoken in a valley of southern Ethiopia; closely related to Cushitic languages

Definition categories: communication, afrasian