• a lingua franca in the Eastern Roman Empire, remains in use today as a sacred language in some Eastern Orthodox churches. Latin became the lingua franca...
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  • 1889, the Ge'ez script (Ethiopic script) has been used to write the Tigre language. Tigre speakers formerly used Arabic more widely as a lingua franca....
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  • 1889, the Ge'ez script (Ethiopic script) has been used to write the Tigre language. Tigre speakers formerly used Arabic more widely as a lingua franca....
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  • Phoenician ʾālep 𐤀, Syriac ʾālap̄ ܐ. It also appears as South Arabian 𐩱 and Ge'ez ʾälef አ. These letters are believed to have derived from an Egyptian hieroglyph...
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  • Amharic (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    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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    not just of Canaanite, but also of Aramaic, Old South Arabian, and early Ge'ez. During this period, the case system, once vigorous in Ugaritic, seems to...
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  • in Coptic, not Arabic. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church holds liturgies in Ge'ez, but parts of the Mass are read in Amharic. Similarly, in Hindu culture...
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    According to Ethiopian and Eritrean traditions, the ancient Semitic language of Ge'ez is the language of Adam, the first and original language. More recently...
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    sixth and fifth centuries BC as an abjad to transcribe the Semitic Ge'ez language. Ge'ez now serves as the liturgical language of the Ethiopian and Eritrean...
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    historical times from the classical verb–subject–object (VSO) language Ge'ez. It has been hypothesized that this word order was a result of influence...
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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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    in this ancient Christian land. He prepared himself by learning ancient Ge'ez and the Amharic language of the highlands. Landing at Tadjura, Krapf followed...
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    identified as Kush, while his grandfather is known as Kam. In the 15th-century Ge'ez Book of Axum, the name is ascribed to a legendary individual called Ityopp'is...
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    been named "Blemmyes" in Roman times, Bəga in Aksumite inscriptions in Ge'ez, and "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling was specifically referring...
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    Arabic (category Lingua francas)
    languages (except for the Latin-written Maltese, and the languages with the Ge'ez script), is written from right to left. There are several styles of scripts...
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  • on Sephardi Hebrew, both because this was the de facto spoken form as a lingua franca in the land of Israel and because he believed it to be the most beautiful...
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    language Ladino, Espanyolit or Spanyolit. Judaeo-Spanish, once the Jewish lingua franca of the Adriatic Sea, the Balkans, and the Middle East, and renowned...
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    German). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3-447-03937-X. Cerulli, Enrico. “La lingua e la storia di Harar” in Studi Etiopici, vol. I, 1936 (Roma). Cohen, Marcel...
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    De Lacy (1923). Comparative grammar of the Semitic languages. p. 23. ...Ge'ez or Ethiopic. It ceased to be a spoken tongue in the fourteenth century A...
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    Emperor Constantine. By the year 500, the Bible had been translated into Ge'ez, Gothic, Armenian and Georgian. By the year 1000, a number of other translations...
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  • OVS Language". Lingua. 75 (4): 289–324. doi:10.1016/0024-3841(88)90008-3. Merlan, Francesca (1982). Mangarayi. North-Holland: Lingua Descriptive Studies...
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    Somali, Egyptian, Berber, Hausa, Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, and Akkadian. Ge'ez was developed around sixth century BCE and evident by inscriptions of contemporary...
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    alphabet. Manual alphabets based on the Arabic alphabet, the Ethiopian Ge'ez script and the Korean Hangul script use handshapes that are more or less...
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    widespread usage of the Aramaic language after it was adopted as both a lingua franca and the official language of the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian...
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  • derived from Aramaic (the latter as a medieval cursive variant of Nabataean). Ge'ez is from South Arabian. Phoenician used a system of acrophony to name letters:...
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  • Antiquity. Latin was the language of the ancient Romans as well as being the lingua franca of Western and Central Europe throughout the Middle Ages. Latin literature...
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    and after it faded as a spoken language, it continued to be used as a lingua franca among scholars and Jews traveling in foreign countries. After the...
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    Amhara people (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    Amharas (Amharic: አማራ, romanized: Āmara; Ge'ez: ዐምሐራ, romanized: ʾÄməḥära) are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group indigenous to Ethiopia, traditionally inhabiting...
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  • texts also used colons to mark abbreviations. In Ethiopia, both Amharic and Ge'ez script used and sometimes still use a colon-like mark as word separator...
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    Wissenschaften., as revised by the author Rix, Helmut (1993). "La scrittura e la lingua". In Cristofani, Mauro (hrsg.) (ed.). Gli etruschi – Una nuova immagine...
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