Notes from the Field: Baskeet Phonological Sketch and Digital Wordlist

Autor/inn/en	Treis, Yvonne; Werth, Alexander
Titel	Notes from the Field: Baskeet Phonological Sketch and Digital Wordlist
Quelle	In: Language Documentation & Conservation, 8 (2014), S.810-832 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1934-5275
Schlagwörter	Afro Asiatic Languages; Phonology; Word Lists; Phonemes; Phonetic Transcription; Foreign Countries; Ethiopia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fonologie; Wortliste; Fonem; Lautschrift; Ausland; Äthiopien
Abstract	In literature, "Baskeet," also known by the Amharic term, "Basketo," is an Omotic language spoken by about 80,000 speakers in the Basketo Special Woreda and in the Melokoza Woreda of the Gamo-Gofa Zone in the Southern Region of Ethiopia. Baskeet (ISO 639-3 code: bst) belongs to the Ometo branch of North Omotic and is hitherto little studied. After an introduction to the sound system of the language in section 2, this work presents a list of about 200 Baskeet words in a phonemic and a broad phonetic transcription with tone marking. The lexical items of the list in section 3 were drawn from the first author's lexical and textual database, which had been established during fieldwork in different villages of the Basketo Special Woreda. The aim of this publication is to make verifiable lexical data available to a wider public for the comparison of Ometo languages (and dialects). To date, phonological descriptions of Baskeet and historical/comparative works on Ometo languages are based on sets of largely unreliable and inconsistent data, which were collected many decades ago and from speakers living outside the speaker area. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	National Foreign Language Resources Center at University of Hawaii. Department of Linguistics, UHM Moore Hall 569, 1890 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822. Fax: 808-956-9166; e-mail: ldc@hawaii.edu; Web site: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01