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Ge'ez
thumb|Ezana stone, written in Geʽez explaining his conquests and accomplishments Geez ( or ; , and sometimes referred to in scholarly literature as Classical Ethiopic) is an ancient South Semitic language. The language originates from what is now known as Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Geʽez script
script used for languages in Ethiopia and Eritrea
ض
'''''' () is the fifteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, one of the six letters not in the twenty-two akin to the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). In name and shape, it is a variant of . Its numerical value is 800 (see Abjad numerals). It is related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪓‎‎‎, South Arabian .
خ
''' or (, transliterated as (DIN-31635), (Hans Wehr), (ALA-LC) or (ISO 233)) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). It is based on the ' . It is related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪍‎‎‎, South Arabian , and Ge'ez .
Meqabyan
Meqabyan (, also transliterated as or ), also referred to as Ethiopian Maccabees and Ethiopic Maccabees, are three books found only in the Ethiopian Orthodox Old Testament Biblical canon. The language of composition of these books is Geʽez, also called Classical Ethiopic, although they are more commonly found in Amharic today. These books are entirely different in their scope, content and subject from the more well-known books of Maccabees found in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles.
Robert Henry Charles
British biblical scholar and theologian (1855–1931)
Ramiel
Ramiel (, Raʿamʾēl; ) is a fallen Watcher angel. He is mentioned in Chapter 6 of the apocryphal Book of Enoch as one of the 19 Watchers that sinned and rebelled against God by mating with human women and creating offspring called Nephilim.
Śawt
Śawt ሠ is a letter of the Geʽez script, descended from Epigraphic South Arabian 14px, in Geʽez representing ś. It is reconstructed as descended from a Proto-Semitic voiceless lateral fricative , like the Welsh pronunciation of the ll in llwyd. It survived only in South Semitic as an independent phoneme.
Gorgoryos
Ethiopian priest and lexicographer
Carlo Conti Rossini
Italian orientalist (1872-1949)
Sat
letter in the Ge'ez alphabet