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The Omotic languages are Afro-Asiatic languages spoken in northeastern Africa. Most Omotic speakers live in southwestern Ethiopia. The Omotic languages are fairly agglutinative.

The Ge'ez alphabet is used to write some Omotic languages.

The Omotic Languages include:

Lionel Bender (2000) classifies this group as follows:

• South Omotic/Aroid (Hamer, Banna, Aari, Dime, Karo)
• North Omotic/Non-Aroid
  • Mao (Bambassi (Bambeshi), Hozo, Sezo, Ganza)
  • Dizoid (Dizi, Dorsha, Sheko (Shako), Nayi (Nao))
  • Gonga-Gimojan
    • Gonga/Kefoid (Boro, Anfillo, Kafa, Shekkacho language (Mocha))
    • Gimojan
      • Yem/Janjero (Yemsa (Janjero), Fuga)
      • Ometo-Gimira
        • Gimira (Bench, She, Mer)
        • Chara
        • Ometo (Male; Basketo; Kachama, Ganjule, Koreete (Koyra), Gidichho, Zayse, Zergulla; Welayta (Ometo), Oyta (Oyda), Dorze, Melo, Gamo, Gofa, Dawro)

Apart from terminology, this differs from Harold Fleming's earlier (1976) classification in including the Mao languages, whose affiliation had originally been controversial, and in abolishing the "Gimojan" group. There are also differences in the subclassification of Ometo, which is not given here.

The Omotic languages were formerly classified as the West subgroup of the Cushitic languages, but as more data became available, Harold Fleming proposed that they constituted a separate subgroup of Afro-Asiatic, and this has become the prevalent view. Whether the old Cushitic language family should be split in two in this way is still controversial among some linguists; others, conversely, such as Paul Newman, regard its differences from other Afro-Asiatic languages as so great as to cast doubt on its very inclusion in the phylum, and regard it as being, at closest, the phylum's most distant branch.

They should not be confused with the unrelated Omotik language, a nearly extinct Nilotic language of Tanzania with a similar name.

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