Baiso language

Baiso
Baiso
Giddicho, Alkali
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	in region of Lake Abaya
Ethnicity	Bayso people, Haro people (L2)
Native speakers	5,500 (2007 census)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Cushitic Lowland East Cushitic Omo-Tana East Omo-Tana Baiso-Jiddu Baiso; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bsw
Glottolog	bais1246
ELP	Bayso

Baiso is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Ethiopia, in the region around Lake Abaya.^[1] It is an unwritten language.^[1]

Phonology[]

The following sounds are used in the Baiso language:^[2]^[3]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Baiso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
^ 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.)[1]

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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.)