Basketo language
Encyclopedia
Basketo is an Afro-Asiatic
language spoken in the Basketo special woreda of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, which is part of Ethiopia
. The speakers refer to the language as "Masketo", while their neighbors refer to it as "Basketo." It has said to consist of two dialects, "Doko" and "Dollo". Besides their mother tongue, some also speak Melo
, Oyda
, Galila, or Gofa.
Afro-Asiatic languages
The Afroasiatic languages , also known as Hamito-Semitic, constitute one of the world's largest language families, with about 375 living languages...
language spoken in the Basketo special woreda of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, which is part of Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
. The speakers refer to the language as "Masketo", while their neighbors refer to it as "Basketo." It has said to consist of two dialects, "Doko" and "Dollo". Besides their mother tongue, some also speak Melo
Melo language
Melo is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Gamo Gofa Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region in Ethiopia....
, Oyda
Oyda language
Oyda is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Gamo Gofa Zone of Ethiopia.The 2007 Census of Ethiopia lists 45,120 individuals for the ethnic group.- External links :* , LL-Map website...
, Galila, or Gofa.
Further reading
- Schütz, Julia (2006): "Kasusmarkierung im Basketo: Eine Analyse im Rahmen der Distribuierten Morphologie" in Gereon Müller & Jochen Trommer (eds.): Subanalysis of Argument Encoding in Distributed Morphology, Linguistische Arbeitsberichte 84, Universität Leipzig, pp. 63–75.
External links
- "Map of the Basketto language", LL-Map website