Bayso
Baiso; Alkali; Gidicho; Gedicho;
Afro-Asiatic; Cushitic; Lowland East Cushitic
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2007
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Gidiccho Island, Welege Island, Golmakka Island, and the western shore of Lake Abaya, Ethiopia
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"The people are bilingual in Wolaytta and/or Oromo, also as a result of recent resettlement programmes, which resulted in modified patterns of bilingualism."
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1992
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Ethiopia
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"Gidicho Island in Lake Abaya. It is also spoken in a number of villages located along the western shore of Lake Abaya."
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"Gidicho Island in Lake Abaya. It is also spoken in a number of villages located along the western shore of Lake Abaya."
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2010
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6.4081,37.749
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3,500
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"Ethnic Bayso, and Bayso mother tongue speakers, count about 3500"
2011
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Ethiopia;
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"[The Bayso people] live in the North Omo Zone (capital: Arba Minch), which is found in the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Federal State (capital: Awasa), some 500km south of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. The Bayso inhabit the island of Gidiccho, the biggest island in Lake Abbaya [...] The Bayso village is found in the southern tip of the island."
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"[The Bayso people] live in the North Omo Zone (capital: Arba Minch), which is found in the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Federal State (capital: Awasa), some 500km south of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. The Bayso inhabit the island of Gidiccho, the biggest island in Lake Abbaya [...] The Bayso village is found in the southern tip of the island."
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Amharic; Wolayta; Gamo; Guji-Oromo
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"[In towns,] the Bayso have to deal with people belonging to economically and politically more powerful people, such as the Wolayta, the Gamo and the Guji-Oromo. Multilingualism towards the latter’s languages and to Amharic, which remains the language of trade and education, makes the Bayso language useless in public."
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2009
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2001
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Wolaytta, Gatsøame, (Guji-) Oromo, and Amharic.
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2005
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- The Early History of the Somali and the Discussion on Baiso -- an overviewZáhorřík, Jan. 2007. "The Early History of the Somali and the Discussion On Baiso -- An Overview." In VIVA Africa 2007. Proceedings of the IInd International Conference on African Studies, Pilsen, 27-28 April, edited by Tomáš Machalík and Jan Záhorřík. 95-106. Pilsen: Dryada.
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