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Omotic language spoken in Ethiopia
Basketo
ባስኬ፟ት (Basket)
Native toEthiopia
EthnicityBasketo
Native speakers93,000 (2007 census)
Language familyAfro-Asiatic
Dialects
  • Dokko
  • Dollo
Writing systemGe'ez
Language codes
ISO 639-3bst
Glottologbask1236
ELPBasketo

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. 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.

See also

References

  1. ^ Basketo at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  2. Alemayehu Abebe, "Sociolinguistic Survey Report of the Mesketo Language of Ethiopia", SIL Electronic Survey Reports SILESR 2002-067.

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.
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