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Ta-Ne-Omotic languages map

19 Ta-Ne-Omotic languages are on the map, most of them in Ethiopia. It divides into 2 main branches, the largest being Ometo (13 languages). The best-known members include Wolaytta, Kafa and Bench. Only this family is drawn; tap the map to list every language at a spot.

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Key

Language families (largest ten)

  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

Everything else

  • All other families Smaller families, isolates and unclassified languages.
  • Point A language with no area map. The dot sits at its Glottolog position, in its family colour.

How to read the map. Each colour is a language family: a group of languages that share a common ancestor. The ten largest families have their own colour and every other family is grey. Areas are see-through, so where two languages share a place the colours mix. Tap anywhere to list every language whose area covers that spot. Areas are generalisations drawn from published atlases, many of them decades old, and cities are multilingual, so an area never says that everyone there speaks the language. A dot marks a language that has no area map. The family name is always given in words, because colour alone is hard to tell apart for some people.

The Ta-Ne-Omotic family at a glance

  • 19languages
  • 16drawn as areas
  • 3shown as points
  • 2main branches

Colours on the map mark the ten largest families; this page’s filter shows Ta-Ne-Omotic alone. Areas are generalisations from published atlases and overlap with the areas of other families.

Biggest Ta-Ne-Omotic languages

By approximate speaker counts from Wikidata, each with its source and year on its own page.

  1. Where is Wolaytta spoken? (about 5.8 million speakers)
  2. Where is Kafa spoken? (about 1.5 million speakers)
  3. Where is Bench spoken? (about 347,000 speakers)
  4. Where is Koorete spoken? (about 159,000 speakers)
  5. Where is Male (Ethiopia) spoken? (about 95,000 speakers)
  6. Where is Basketo spoken? (about 93,000 speakers)
  7. Where is Oyda spoken? (about 37,000 speakers)

Branches of Ta-Ne-Omotic

The second level of the Glottolog family tree.

  • Ometo (13)
  • Kefoid (4)

Where Ta-Ne-Omotic languages are spoken

Countries with the most Ta-Ne-Omotic languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

All 19 Ta-Ne-Omotic languages, A to Z

Questions about Ta-Ne-Omotic languages

How many Ta-Ne-Omotic languages are there?

19 living Ta-Ne-Omotic languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. They fall into 2 main branches, the biggest being Ometo (13 languages). Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are Ta-Ne-Omotic languages spoken?

Ethiopia (19) have the most Ta-Ne-Omotic languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

What are the biggest Ta-Ne-Omotic languages?

By the approximate speaker counts Wikidata holds: Wolaytta (about 5.8 million), Kafa (about 1.5 million) and Bench (about 347,000). These figures differ between sources and years.

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