Basketo (also known as Basketto, Baskatta, Mesketo, Misketto, and Basketo-Dokka) is an

Afro-Asiatic The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in the geographic su ...

language spoken in the Basketo special woreda of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, which is part of Ethiopia. The speakers refer to the language as "Masketo", while their neighbors refer to it as "Basketo." It has said to consist of two dialects, "Doko" (Dokko) and "Dollo" (Dollo). Besides their mother tongue, some also speak Melo,

Oyda Oyda is one of the woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. It is named after Oyda people living in this woreda. Part of the Gamo Gofa Zone, Oyda is bordered on the south by Uba Debretsehay, on the west by th ...

, Galila, or

Gofa Gofa may refer to: * Gofa people of Ethiopia *Gofa language *Gofa Zone Gofa Zone (Amharic language, Amharic "Greater Gofa Area") was one of the 17 Zones in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Southern N ...

.Alemayehu Abebe
"Sociolinguistic Survey Report of the Mesketo Language of Ethiopia"
SIL Electronic Survey Reports SILESR 2002-067.

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