Basketo (also known as Basketto, Baskatta, Mesketo, Misketto, and Basketo-Dokka) is an
Afro-Asiatic
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in the geographic su ...
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" (Dokko) and "Dollo" (Dollo). Besides their mother tongue, some also speak Melo, ]Oyda Oyda is one of the woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. It is named after Oyda people living in this woreda. Part of the Gamo Gofa Zone, Oyda is bordered on the south by Uba Debretsehay, on the west by th ...
, Galila, or Gofa.[Alemayehu Abebe]
"Sociolinguistic Survey Report of the Mesketo Language of Ethiopia"
SIL Electronic Survey Reports SILESR 2002-067.
See also
*Basketo people The Basketo people are an Omotic-speaking ethnic group whose homeland lies in the southern part of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region (SNNPR) of Ethiopia. The Basketo special woreda is named after this ethnic group. According t ...
References
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.
Languages of Ethiopia
North Omotic languages
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