Bayso (language)
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speaker | 1000 to several thousand | |
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Bayso or Baiso is a language spoken in southern Ethiopia on the islands of Gidicho (Gidiccho, Gidiččo) and Golmaka (Gólmakka, Wollage, Wóolige) in Lake Abaya and on its western shore.
Bayso is the name of a village on Gidicho that the Bayso use for themselves and their language. Older Bayso in particular also speak Oromo , while younger ones speak Wolaytta . On Gidicho live next to the Bayso the Kachama-Ganjule or Harro , who speak an omotic language .
O. Neumann was the first to recognize in 1902 that the Bayso was related to the Somali . In terms of linguistics, the Bayso was first described by Fleming in 1964; Hayward provided a more detailed description in 1978/79. The Bayso is generally counted among the Omo-Tana languages (formerly "Macro-Somali"), which in turn belong to the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asian languages . Geographically, its distribution area is far north of the other Omo-Tana languages, surrounded by omotic and other East Cushitic languages. The position within the Omo-Tana is controversial, some researchers classify Bayso together with Dassanetch , Arbore and the El Molo language as West Omo-Tana, others consider it as a separate branch of North Omo-Tana.
literature
- Rainer Vogt: Bayso language . In: Siegbert Uhlig (Ed.): Encyclopaedia Aethiopica , Volume 1. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-447-04746-1
- Harold Fleming: Baiso and Rendille: Somali outliers . In: Rassegna di Studi Etiopici 20, 1964
- Richard John Hayward: Bayso revisited. Some preliminary linguistic observations , parts 1 and 2. In: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , 41 and 42, 1978 and 1979
- Eike Haberland, Marcello Lamberti: Ibaaddo ka -Ba'iso. Culture and language of the Ba'iso , Studia linguarum Africae orientalis , 2nd C. Winter 1988, ISBN 978-3-533-04013-2
Web links
- GG Corbett: Gender and number in Bayso . (PDF; 1.4 MB), in: Lingua 73, 1987
- Ethnologue to Baiso
- Matthias Brenzinger: The “islanders” of Lake Abaya and Lake Ch'amo: Harro, Ganjule, Gats'ame and Bayso . (PDF; 267 kB), 1999