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^Tosco, Mauro (2012). The Unity and Diversity of Somali Dialectal Variants. In: Nathan Oyori Ogechi, Jane A. Ngala Oduor and Peter Iribemwangi (eds.), The Harmonization and Standardization of Kenyan Languages. Orthography and other aspects. Cape Town: The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS): 2012: 263–280.
tana, languages, confused, with, language, branch, cushitic, family, spoken, ethiopia, djibouti, somalia, kenya, largest, member, somali, there, some, debate, whether, form, single, group, whether, they, individual, branches, lowland, east, cushitic, blench, 2. Not to be confused with Omo language The Omo Tana languages are a branch of the Cushitic family and are spoken in Ethiopia Djibouti Somalia and Kenya The largest member is Somali There is some debate as to whether the Omo Tana languages form a single group or whether they are individual branches of Lowland East Cushitic Blench 2006 restricts the name to the Western Omo Tana languages and calls the others Macro Somali 1 2 Omo Tana disputed GeographicdistributionEthiopia Djibouti Somalia KenyaLinguistic classificationAfro AsiaticCushiticLowland EastOmo TanaSubdivisionsEastern Somaloid Western Arboroid Glottologomot1245Internal classification editMauro Tosco 2012 3 proposes the following internal classification of the Omo Tana languages Tosco considers Omo Tama to consist of a Western branch and an Eastern Somaloid branch which is a dialect chain of various Somali languages and the Rendille Boni languages see also Macro Somali languages Omo TanaWestern Galaboid or Arboroid branch Dhaasanac Arbore Elmolo Yaaku Eastern Somaloid branch Rendille Karre Boni Tunni Dabarre Ashraaf Maay SomaliReferences edit Roger Blench 2006 The Afro Asiatic Languages Classification and Reference List ms Vossen Rainer Dimmendaal Gerrit J 2020 03 19 The Oxford Handbook of African Languages Oxford University Press p 296 ISBN 978 0 19 100737 8 Tosco Mauro 2012 The Unity and Diversity of Somali Dialectal Variants In Nathan Oyori Ogechi Jane A Ngala Oduor and Peter Iribemwangi eds The Harmonization and Standardization of Kenyan Languages Orthography and other aspects Cape Town The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society CASAS 2012 263 280 This Afroasiatic languages related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Omo Tana languages amp oldid 1194288200, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
