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Basketo

A language of Ethiopia

ISO 639-3: bst

Population	57,800 (1994 census). 42,726 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 51,097 (1998 census).
Region	North Omo region, west of Bulki on a plateau.
Language map	Southwestern Ethiopia, reference number 12
Alternate names	Baskatta, Basketto, Mesketo
Dialects	Lexical similarity: 61% with Oyda [oyd].
Classification	Afro-Asiatic, Omotic, North, Gonga-Gimojan, Gimojan, Ometo-Gimira, Ometo, West
Language use	8,961 L2 speakers. Also use a little Wolaytta [wal].
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 0%. Literacy rate in L2: 10.2%. Bible portions: 2006.
Writing system	Ethiopic script. Latin script.
Comments	SOV. Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ABEBE, Alemayehu, author. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Mesketo language of Ethiopia."  

ABEBE, Alemayehu, author. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report on the Ometo dialect of Ethiopia, part II."  

GIRARD, Tim, author. 2002. "Lexico-phonostatistical analysis of Alemayehu Abebe’s Ometo word lists."  

Vernacular Publications

Basket fidala maasˀaaf. 2007.