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    "emphasis" in Geʽez has been generalized to include emphatic p̣ /pʼ/. Geʽez has phonologized labiovelars, descending from Proto-Semitic biphonemes. Geʽez ś ሠ Sawt...
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    Geʽez (Ge'ez: ግዕዝ, romanized: Gəʽəz, IPA: [ˈɡɨʕɨz] ) is a script used as an abugida (alphasyllabary) for several Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan languages...
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    Tigrinya language (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    strong influence of Geʽez on Tigrinya literature, especially with terms relating to Christian life, Biblical names, and so on. Ge'ez, because of its status...
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    (his edition of the Geʽez four Gospels was first published in 1826). The Garima Gospels are the oldest translation of the Bible in Ge'ez and the world's earliest...
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  • The Ethiopian calendar (Amharic: ዓውደ ወር; Ge'ez: ዓዉደ ወርሕ; Tigrinya: ዓዉደ ኣዋርሕ), or Ge'ez calendar (Ge'ez: ዓዉደ ወርሕ; Tigrinya: ዓዉደ ኣዋርሕ; Amharic: የኢትዮጲያ ዘመን...
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    Book of Jubilees (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    A comparison of the Qumran texts with the Geʽez version, performed by James VanderKam, found that the Geʽez was in most respects an accurate and literalistic...
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    languages (including English) are also used. The Ge'ez Rite is native to Ethiopia and Eritrea and uses the Ge'ez language. It is used in the Ethiopian Orthodox...
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    Ge'ez Braille is the braille alphabet for all Ethiopic languages. Letter values are mostly in line with international usage. Ge'ez Braille is a consonant–vowel...
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  • Haymanot (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    Haymanot (Ge'ez: ሃይማኖት) is the branch of Judaism which is practiced by the Beta Israel, also known as Ethiopian Jews. In Geʽez, Tigrinya and Amharic, Haymanot...
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  • Amharic (category Languages written in Geʽez script)
    Arabic). Amharic is written left-to-right using a system that grew out of the Geʽez script. The segmental writing system in which consonant-vowel sequences...
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  • manuscripts Septuagint manuscripts Bible translations Bible translations into Geʽez List of Bible translations by language Categories of New Testament manuscripts...
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  • Orthodox Tewahedo (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    Orthodox Tewahedo Church, autocephalous since 1993. Tewahedo (Ge'ez: ተዋሕዶ täwaḥədo) is a Ge'ez word meaning "being made one" or "unified". This word refers...
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  • Book of the Cock (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    of the Cock or the Book of the Rooster; Geʽez: Mäṣḥafä Dorho, መጽሐፈ፡ ዶርሆ፡; French: Le Livre du Coq) is a Geʽez narrative of the passion of Jesus (a passion...
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    Zera Yacob Amha Selassie (/ˈzɪərə jæˈkoʊb/; Geʽez: ዘርዐ ያዕቆብ አምሃ ሥላሴ; born 17 August 1953) is the grandson of Emperor Haile Selassie and son of Amha Selassie...
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    Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church is Geʽez. This was the language of the early Aksumite Christians of the region. Though Geʽez has no more native speakers, the...
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    Kingdom of Aksum (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    promoted the Geʽez script and made Geʽez an official state language alongside Greek; by the 6th century literary translations into Geʿez were common....
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    sister script to the Phoenician alphabet, is the script from which the Ge'ez abugida was descended. Abugidas are writing systems with characters comprising...
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  • but /θ/ in Arabic and /s/ in Geʽez (/θ/ in early Geʽez) *š (*s₁) that became /ʃ/ in Hebrew (שׁ) but /s/ in Arabic and Geʽez *ś (*s₂) that became /s/ (שׂ...
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    developed by missionaries who used the Geʽez abugida and the first text was published in 1882. Although the Geʽez script is usually used for Semitic languages...
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    not all support manuscript cultures. The majority of manuscripts are in Ge'ez, the ancient liturgical language of Ethiopia. Catalogues and Online Resouces...
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  • northern and southern languages are closely related. Ethiopic North Ethiopic Geʽez (Classical Ethiopic) † Dahalik Tigre Tigrinya South Ethiopic Transversal...
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    the ASA scripts fell out of use by the 6th century AD. The exception was Geʽez, a child of ASA in use in Ethiopia. It and its variants remain in use today...
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  • 4
    Hexadecimal 416 Armenian Դ Arabic, Kurdish ٤ Persian, Sindhi ۴ Shahmukhi, Urdu ۴ Ge'ez ፬ Bengali, Assamese ৪ Chinese numeral 四,亖,肆 Devanagari ४ Telugu ౪ Malayalam...
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    Semitic languages (category Ge'ez language)
    Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, and ancient South Arabian alphabets. The Geʽez script, used for writing the Semitic languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea,...
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    Ethiopian eunuch (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    The Ethiopian eunuch (Ge'ez: ኢትዮጵያዊው ጃንደረባ) is a figure in the New Testament of the Bible; the story of his conversion to Christianity is recounted in...
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    to Neo-Tifinagh. The Geʽez script is an abugida that was created in Horn of Africa in the 8th-9th century BC for writing the Geʽez language. The script...
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    likely from Hebrew/Aramaic: יֵשׁוּעַ Yēšūaʿ Coptic: Ⲓⲏⲥⲟⲩⲥ Ⲡⲓⲭ́ρⲓⲥτⲟⲥ; Geʽez: መሲህ ኢየሱስ; Greek: Ἰησοῦς Χριστός; Hebrew: ישוע המשיח; Latin: Iesus Christus;...
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    Kaleb of Axum (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    Press, 1972), p. 26 n. 1 The translation of one inscription, written in Geʽez, appears with discussion in George Wynn Brereton Huntingford, The Historical...
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    of Enoch (aka 1 Enoch), composed in Hebrew or Aramaic and preserved in Ge'ez, first brought to Europe by James Bruce from Ethiopia and translated into...
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    the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew, Syriac, Greek and Latin, and of the Geʽez script, which was also influenced by the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing...
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