Baiso language
Spoken in
- Afro-Asiatic languages Cushitic languages Ostkuschitische languages Tieflandostkuschitische languages Omo - Tana languages Bayso
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Bayso or Baiso is a language in southern Ethiopia on the islands Gidicho ( Gidiccho, Gidiččo ) and Golmaka ( Gólmakka, wool batting, Wóolige ) is spoken in the Abayasee and to its west bank.
Bayso is the name of a village on Gidicho, the use Bayso for themselves and their language. Especially older Bayso speak addition Oromo, whereas younger Wolaytta. On Gidicho live next to the Bayso the Kachama - Ganjule or Harrogate who speak a language omotische.
Be the first to O. Neumann recognized the kinship of 1902 Bayso with the Somali. Linguistically, the Bayso was first described by Fleming in 1964, a more detailed description provided Hayward 1978/79. The Bayso is generally to the Omo - Tana languages (formerly called " macro - Somali " ) are counted, which in turn belong to the Cushitic branch of the Afro Asiatic languages. Geographically, its range is far north of the rest of the Omo - Tana languages , surrounded by omotischen and ostkuschitischen of other languages . The position within the Omo - Tana is controversial, some researchers classify Bayso together with Dassanetch, Arbore and the language of the El Molo as Western Omo - Tana, others regard it as a separate branch of North Omo - Tana.
Swell
- Rainer Vogt: Bayso language, in: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.): Encyclopaedia aethiopica, Volume 1, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-447-04746-1
- GG Corbett: Gender and number in Bayso (PDF, 1.4 MB), in: Lingua 73, 1987
- Ethnologue to Baiso
- Matthias Brenzinger: The " islanders " of Lake Abaya and Lake Chamo: Harrogate, Ganjule, Gatsame and Bayso (PDF, 267 kB ), 1999