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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]
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

Phonology

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

Consonant phonemes

		Labial	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	(p)	t			k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d			ɡ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ			kʼ
	implosive		ɗ
Sibilant	voiceless		s	t͡ʃ
	voiced		(z)	d͡ʒ
	ejective		sʼ	t͡ʃʼ
Fricative		f		ʃ			h
Nasal	plain	m	n		ɲ
	implosive	mˀ	nˀ
Trill			r
Approximant			l		j

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i, iː		u, uː
Mid	e, eː		o, oː
Open		a, aː

References

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.)

На других языках

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[de] Bayso (Sprache)

Bayso oder Baiso ist eine Sprache, die in Südäthiopien auf den Inseln Gidicho (Gidiccho, Gidiččo) und Golmaka (Gólmakka, Wollage, Wóolige) im Abayasee sowie an dessen Westufer gesprochen wird.

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- [en] Baiso language

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[ru] Байсо

Байсо, также алкали, — кушитский язык, на котором говорит одноимённый народ на юго-западе Эфиопии. Письменности не имеет[2].

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