Geʽez

Geʽez
Geʽez
ግዕዝ Gəʿəz
Pronunciation	[ˈɡɨʕɨz]
Native to	Ethiopia, Eritrea
Extinct	before 10th century to 14th century; Remains in use as a liturgical language.
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic South Semitic Ethiopic North Ethiopic Geʽez; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Geʽez script
Official status
Official language in	Liturgical language of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Eritrean Catholic Church, Ethiopian Catholic Church and Beta Israel
Language codes
ISO 639-2	gez
ISO 639-3	gez
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Geʽez (/ˈɡiːɛz/;^[5]^[6] ግዕዝ, Gəʿəz

Geʽez Media

Hawulti Obelisk in Matera, southern Eritrea. The monument dates to the early Aksumite period and bears the oldest known example of the ancient Ge'ez script
a verse from the book of Psalms written in Geʽez
Genesis 29.11–16 in Geʽez
Example of Geʽez taken from a 15th-century Ethiopian Coptic prayer book
The Ezana Stone, engraved from AD 330 to 356, is written in ancient Ge'ez, Sabaean and Greek.

IPA: [ˈɡɨʕɨz] ( listen)) is an ancient Ethiopian Semitic language. The language came from what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea.

↑ Gene Gragg 1997. The Semitic Languages. Taylor & Francis. Robert Hetzron ed. ISBN 978-0-415-05767-7. p. 242.
↑ De Lacy O'Leary, 2000 Comparative grammar of the Semitic languages. Routledge. p. 23.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 "No longer in popular use, Geʽez has always remained the language of the Church", [CHA]
↑ "They read the Bible in Geez" (Leaders and Religion of the Beth Israel); "after each passage, recited in Geez, the translation is read in Kailina" (Festivals). [PER], publication date 1901–1906.
↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh
↑ "Geez". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2nd ed. 1989.