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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ancient Geʽez script. In one study, Tigre was found to have a 71% lexical similarity to Ge'ez, while Tigrinya had a 68% lexical similarity to Geʽez, followed...
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Qatabanic, Hadramautic, Minaean Hasaitic, and Geʽez in Dʿmt. The earliest instances of the Ancient South Arabian script are painted pottery sherds from Raybun...
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Amharic (redirect from Amharic script)
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 are...
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Writing systems of Africa (redirect from West African script)
antiquity, as has the Geʽez script and its derivatives in the Horn of Africa. Other groups have encountered the Latin and Arabic scripts for centuries, but...
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Ugaritic alphabet (redirect from Ugar (script))
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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assimilation in 1991, various ethnic groups in Ethiopia dropped the Geʽez script, which was deemed unsuitable for languages outside of the Semitic branch...
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Phoenician alphabet (redirect from Phoenician script)
script may be derived from a stage of the Proto-Sinaitic script predating the mature development of the Phoenician alphabet proper. The Geʽez script developed...
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Abugida (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
traditionally meant letters of the Ethiopic or Ge‘ez script in which many of these languages are written. Ge'ez is one of several segmental writing systems...
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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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Writing system (redirect from Script system)
abugida is derived from the first four characters of an order of the Geʽez script used in some contexts. It was coined as a linguistic term by Peter T...
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Tigre language (section Ge'ez script)
Ethiopia, who speak Tigrinya. Tigrinya is also derived from the parent Geʽez tongue[citation needed], but is quite distinct from Tigre despite the similarity...
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Tigrinya language (redirect from Tigrinya script)
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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Mëranaw, Minangkabau, Tausūg, and Ternate. Jawi is based on the Arabic script, consisting of all 31 original Arabic letters, six letters constructed to...
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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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Alphabet (redirect from Alphabetic script)
alphabet. The South Arabian alphabet, a sister script to the Phoenician alphabet, is the script from which the Ge'ez abugida was descended. Abugidas are writing...
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Simplified Chinese Croatia – Croatian alphabet Ethiopia – Ge'ez script Eritrea – Ge'ez script Georgia – Georgian alphabet[citation needed] Greece - Greek...
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Calligraphy (redirect from Script (styles of handwriting))
Early inscriptions in Ge'ez and Ge'ez script have been dated to as early as the 5th century BCE, and in a sort of proto-Ge'ez written in ESA since the...
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The Cyrillic script (/sɪˈrɪlɪk/ sih-RIL-ik), Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It...
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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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southeastern Sudan in Blue Nile State. The Geʽez script is used to write some of the Omotic languages, the Latin script for some others. They are fairly agglutinative...
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letter wə (ው) from the Geʽez script; letter yodh (ي) being replaced by letter waw (و), both originating from the Arabic script; letter cho (ฉ) being...
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Inherent vowel (section Thai script)
four writing traditions has yet been demonstrated. Most Brahmic scripts and Ge'ez scripts use the consonant characters as base graphemes, from which the...
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Malay orthography (redirect from Rumi script)
and Singapore: Tulisan Rumi, lit. 'Roman script / Roman writing', Indonesian: Aksara Latin, lit. 'Latin script') consists of the 26 letters of the ISO...
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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, is technically...
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Bilen language (section Geʽez abugida)
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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civilization included the adoption of Ancient South Arabian script, which developed into Geʽez script, and Ancient Semitic religion. The Sabean character of...
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second-most spoken language in Eritrea. The Ge'ez language has a literary history in its own Ge'ez script going back to the first century AD. It is no...
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Harari language (section Modified Ge'ez script)
Harari was originally written with a version of the Arabic script, then the Ethiopic script was adopted to write the language. Some Harari speakers in...
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Ethiopian literature starts with Axumite texts written in the Geʽez language using the Geʽez script, indigenous to both Ethiopia and Eritrea. There is linguistic...
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