| covers the "Omotic", former "West Cushitic" grouping within the "Afro-Asiatic" or "Hamito-Semitic" intercontinental affinity (and part of the former "wider Cushitic" hypothesis within that intercontinental affinity); comprising 6 sets of languages (= 30 outer languages) spoken by communities in Northeast Africa, in the western Ethiopian highlands between Lake Tana and Lake Turkana, centered on the Omo basin (whence the term "Omotic"): 16-A HAMAR + AARI 16-B WELAITTA + KAFA 16-C DIZI + SHEKO 16-D DIDESSA + MAO-KOOLE* 16-E HOZO + SEZO 16-F GANZA + ASOSA |