Geʽez (/ˈɡiːɛz/ GEE-ez; Ge'ez: ግዕዝ, romanized: Gəʽəz, IPA: [ˈɡɨʕɨz] ) is a script used as an abugida (alphasyllabary) for several Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan...

ancient Geʽez script. In one study, Tigre was found to have a 71% lexical similarity to Geʽez, while Tigrinya had a 68% lexical similarity to Geʽez, followed...

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...

Geʽez Braille is a collection of braille alphabets for the Ethiopian languages that are written in Geʽez script in print.[citation needed] Letter values...

Nabatean scripts rather than ASA. The Geʽez script is the sole extant writing system that derives from ASA. Unlike ASA, Geʽez is an abugida; the primary characters...

traditionally meant letters of the Ethiopic or Geʽez script in which many of these languages are written. The Geʽez script is one of several segmental writing systems...

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...

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 is used today...

the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew, Syriac, Greek and Latin, and of the Geʽez script, which was also influenced by the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing...

Eritrea. The monument bears the oldest known example of the ancient Geʽez script. The Hawulti monument is 5.5 metres (18 ft) high, with a disk and crescent...

The South Arabian alphabet, a sister script to the Phoenician alphabet, is the script from which the Geʽez script was descended. Abugidas are writing systems...

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...

oldest Bible translations. Translations of the Bible in Geʽez, in a predecessor of the Geʽez script which did not possess vowels, were created between the...

el-len ዐለት እለን- they (fem.) had ... Since around 1889, the Geʽez script (Ethiopic script) has been used to write the Tigre language. Tigre speakers formerly...

assimilation in 1991, various ethnic groups in Ethiopia dropped the Geʽez script, which was deemed unsuitable for languages outside of the Semitic branch...

Daniels (b. 1951) from the first four characters of an order of the Geʽez script, which is used for certain Nilo-Saharan and Afro-Asiatic languages of...

promoted the Geʽez script and made Geʽez an official state language alongside Greek; by the sixth century literary translations into Geʿez were common...

and many other languages in Southeast Asia. Jawi is based on the Arabic script, consisting of all 31 original Arabic letters, six letters constructed to...

Arabic alphabet. and Ancient South Arabian, which evolved later into the Geʽez script, still being used in Eritrea and Ethiopia. Impure abjads have characters...

small population of speakers in Sudan. The Geʽez language has a literary history in its own Geʽez script going back to the first century AD. It is no...

Ethiopia – Ge'ez script Eritrea – Ge'ez script Georgia – Georgian alphabet[citation needed] Greece – Greek alphabet Hungary – Latin script India: Hindi...

non-Semitic (such as Weyto) languages, and replacing Geʽez as the principal literary language (though Geʽez remains the liturgical language for Christians in...

the Kingdom of Kush. Various stone inscriptions written in Geʽez (using the Geʽez script) have been found at Meroë, the central city of the Kushites...

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...

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...

Cyrillic script (/sɪˈrɪlɪk/ sirr-IL-ik) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various...

The Geʽez script native to Ethiopia and Eritrea descends from the Ancient South Arabian script, which had initially been used to write early Geʽez texts...

you may see unjoined Syriac letters or other symbols instead of Syriac script. The ancient Aramaic alphabet was used to write the Aramaic languages spoken...

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...

BC, in all three locations, later evolved into the still-in-use Geʽez script. The Geʽez language however is no longer considered to be a descendant of...