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~3,200

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Africa
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

~3,200

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Gidiccho Island, Welege Island, Golmakka Island, and the western shore of Lake Abaya, Ethiopia

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Other languages used

Wolaytta, Oromo

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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."

Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~500

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Year of info

1992

Location and Context

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Ethiopia

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Location description

"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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Other languages used

Wolayta; Oromo

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

2,000

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

6.4081,37.749

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

3,500

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Ethnic Population

3,500

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"Ethnic Bayso, and Bayso mother tongue speakers, count about 3500"

Year of info

2011

Location and Context

Countries

Ethiopia;

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Location description

"[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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Other languages used

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."

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,010

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Ethnic Population

3260

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Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Ethiopia;

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Native Speakers Worldwide

1,100

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2001

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Other languages used

Wolaytta, Gatsøame, (Guji-) Oromo, and Amharic.

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

3,260

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1999

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2005

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6.25,37.75

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