Baiso language
Baiso is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Ethiopia, in the region around Lake Abaya.[1] It is an unwritten language.[1]
| Baiso | |
|---|---|
| Giddicho, Alkali | |
| Native to | Ethiopia |
| Region | in region of Lake Abaya |
| Ethnicity | Bayso people, Haro people (L2) |
Native speakers | 5,500 (2007 census)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bsw |
| Glottolog | bais1246[2] |
Phonology
The following sounds are used in the Baiso language:[3][4]
| Bilabial | Labio- dental |
Alveolar | Post- alveolar (Palato- alveolar) |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | (p) | b | t | d | k | ɡ | ʔ | |||||||
| Ejective plosive | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | |||||||||||
| Implosive | ɗ | |||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Ejective affricate | sʼ | t͡ʃ' | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | (z) | ʃ | h | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||
| Implosive Nasal | mˀ | nˀ | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | /i/, /iː/ | /u/, /uː/ | |
| Mid | /e/, /eː/ | /o/, /oː/ | |
| Open | /a/, /aː/ |
- Baiso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Baiso". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Fleming, Harold C. (1964). "Baiso and Rendille: Somali Outliers". Rassegna di Studi Etiopici. 20: 35–96. JSTOR 41299528.
- Lemmi Kebebew Gnarie. 2018. Grammatical Description and Documentation of Bayso. (Doctoral dissertation, Addis Ababa University; 283pp.)
Further reading
- Brenzinger, Matthias. 1999. The "islanders" of Lake Abaya and Lake Ch'amo: Harro, Ganjule, Gats'ame and Bayso. SIL Electronic Survey Reports. 36pp.
- Corbett, Greville G. and Hayward, Richard J. 1987. Gender and number in Bayso. Lingua 73. 1-28.
- Epple, Susanne. 2016. The Bayso people of Gidiccho Island, Southern Ethiopia: An ethnographic sketch. Ms. 62pp.
- Hayward, Richard J. 1978, 1979. Bayso Revisited: some preliminary linguistic observations. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 41, 42. 539-570, 103-132.
- Lemmi Kebebew Gnarie. 2018. Grammatical Description and Documentation of Bayso. (Doctoral dissertation, Addis Ababa University; 283pp.)
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