Basketo (also known as Basketto, Baskatta, Mesketo, Misketto, and Basketo-Dokka) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Basketo special woreda of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, which is part of Ethiopia.[1] 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" (Dokko) and "Dollo" (Dollo). Besides their mother tongue, some also speak Melo, Oyda, Galila, or Gofa.[2]
| Basketo | |
|---|---|
| ባስኬ፟ት (Basəke፟tə) | |
| Native to | Ethiopia |
| Ethnicity | Basketo |
Native speakers | 93,000 (2007 census)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Ge'ez | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bst |
| Glottolog | bask1236 |
| ELP | Basketo |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Basketo at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
- ^ Alemayehu Abebe, "Sociolinguistic Survey Report of the Mesketo Language of Ethiopia", SIL Electronic Survey Reports SILESR 2002-067.
Further reading
edit- 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.
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