Endangered Languages Project - Bayso

Bayso

^{[aka Baiso, Alkali, Gidicho]}

Classification: Afro-Asiatic

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Baiso, Alkali, Gidicho, Gedicho
CLASSIFICATION		Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic, Lowland East Cushitic
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		bsw
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Information from: “Africa” ( ch. 7) . Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and F. K. Erhard Voeltz (2007) , Christopher Moseley · Routledge

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~3,200
Native speakers worldwide

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "The people are bilingual in Wolaytta and/or Oromo, also as a result of recent resettlement programmes, which resulted in modified patterns of bilingualism."

PLACES: Gidiccho Island, Welege Island, Golmakka Island, and the western shore of Lake Abaya, Ethiopia

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,010
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
3260

DATE OF INFO: 1995

PLACES: Ethiopia;

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,000
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,010
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,260
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1994

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"No signs of language shift were found to exist. The younger generation tends toward Wolaitta (Ometo [wal])"

1,100
Native speakers worldwide

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~500
Native speakers worldwide

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Ethiopia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Gidicho Island in Lake Abaya. It is also spoken in a number of villages located along the western shore of Lake Abaya."

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,500
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
3,500
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"Ethnic Bayso, and Bayso mother tongue speakers, count about 3500"

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "[In towns,] the Bayso have to deal with people belonging to economically and politically more powerful people, such as the Wolayta, the Gamo and the Guji-Oromo. Multilingualism towards the latter’s languages and to Amharic, which remains the language of trade and education, makes the Bayso language useless in public."

PLACES: Ethiopia;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "[The Bayso people] live in the North Omo Zone (capital: Arba Minch), which is found in the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Federal State (capital: Awasa), some 500km south of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. The Bayso inhabit the island of Gidiccho, the biggest island in Lake
Abbaya [...] The Bayso village is found
in the southern tip of the island."

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press