Aroid languages
Asụsụ Aroid ma ọ bụ Asụsụ Ari-Banna (nke bụbu South Omotic ma ọ bụ Somotic) nwekwara ike ịbụ nke ezinụlọ Afro-Asiatic ma na-asụ na Ethiopia.

Asụsụ 

 Asụsụ Aari-Gayil
 Aari
 Gayil
 Asụsụ Hamer-Karo
 Hamer-Banna
 Karo (Etiopia)
 Gwa m

Nchịkọta nke South Omotic (nke a na-akpọkwa Aroid) bụkwa nke a na-arụrịta ụka nke ukwuu ma ọ nwere ike ịbụ ezinụlọ asụsụ dị iche. A na-ewe Karo mgbe ụfọdụ dị ka olumba nke Hamer, mana Glottolog weere ya dị ka asụsụ dị iche nke na-achịkọta ha abụọ n'ezinụlọ Hamer-Karo.

Zaborski (1986) na Lamberti (1993) wekwara South Omotic dị ka alaka dị iche nke Cushitic, na-akpọ ya West Cushittic.

Bender (2000, 2003) na-ekwu na South Omotic dị nnọọ iche na asụsụ ndị ọzọ nke Afroasiatic, ma na-atụ aro na ọ nwere ike ịnwe njikọ na Nilo-Saharan, dị ka Surmic na Nilotic.

N'izo aka na okwu yiri Surmic na asụsụ Nilo-Sahara ndị ọzọ na-abụghị nke Nile, Yigezu (2013) na-ekwu na Aroid (aka. South Omotic) nwere "Nilo-Saharan mmalite" ma bụrụkwa ndị ọzọ "Omotic" asụsụ nwere mmetụta siri ike. Usoro ụdaume Proto-Aroid dịkwa ka nke asụsụ Surmic na Nilotic (Yigezu 2006, 2013).

Glottolog 4.0 amaghị na South Omotic bụ nke otu n'ime ezinụlọ ndị a na-ese okwu, na otu asụsụ Omotic (nke na-ejikọta asụsụ North na South Omoic) ka na-ese ụka. N'ihi nke a, a na-ewere ya ugbu a dị ka ezinụlọ dị iche.

Ihe owuwu ahụ 
 
N'okpuru ebe a bụ nrụzigharị nke Proto-Aroid site na Yigezu (2013).