Also Known As:
Baiso, Alkali, Gidicho, Gedicho
Dialects & Varieties
Endangered Bayso (Cushitic): interesting typological and historical aspects
Graziano Savà. 2011. "Endangered Bayso (Cushitic): Interesting Typological and Historical Aspects." In Studies on Language and African Linguistics in honour of Marcello Lamberti, edited by Luca Busetto et al. Qu.A.S.A.R.. Online: http://grazianosava.altervista.org/grazianosava/Publications_files/Bays….
Threatened
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,500
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speakers
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Ethnic or community population
3,500
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
"[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."
Location and Context
Countries
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."
Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Amharic; Wolayta; Gamo; Guji-Oromo
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
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