Basketo language

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]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Omotic North Omotic Ometo North Basketo
Dialects	Dokko Dollo
Writing system	Ge'ez
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bst
Glottolog	bask1236
ELP	Basketo

See also

• Basketo people

References

1. Basketo at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
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.