Basketo language

Basketo language

language
name=Basketo
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
states=Ethiopia
speakers=57,805 total, 42,726 monolinguals (1998)
fam1=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Omotic
fam3=North
fam4=Gonga-Gimojan
fam5=Gimojan
fam6=Ometo-Gimira
fam7=Ometo
iso3=bst

Basketo (also known as Basketto, Baskatta, Mesketo) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the North Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, which is part of Ethiopia. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

See also

*Basketo people

Notes

References

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bst Ethnologue entry for Basketo]


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