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sistema di scrittura usato in diversi linguaggi dell'Etiopia ed Eritrea
AI overview
Geʽez script is an ancient writing system that was developed for languages spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It remains historically and culturally significant as the script used to write classical religious and literary texts in these regions.
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Key facts
- Script type
- Abugida
- Period
- c. 1st century CE to present (abjad until c. 4th century CE )
- Direction
- Left-to-right
- Parent systems
- Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic script South Semitic scripts Ancient South Arabian script Geʽez
- Child systems
- Amharic , Tigrinya and various other alphabets of Ethiopia and Eritrea
- Iso 15924
- Ethi (430) , Ethiopic (Geʻez)
- Unicode alias
- Ethiopic
- Unicode range
- U+1200–U+137F Ethiopic U+1380–U+139F Ethiopic Supplement U+2D80–U+2DDF Ethiopic Extended U+AB00–U+AB2F Ethiopic Extended-A U+1E7E0–U+1E7FF Ethiopic Extended-B
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- unicase alphabet
- Based on
- Old South Arabian script
- Image
- Meskel Adebabay Millennium.jpg
- Has use
- Oromo
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- topic's main category
- Category:Ge'ez script
- different from
- Ge'ez
- Commons category
- Ge'ez script
- Unicode range
- U+1E7E0-1E7FF
- name
- Ethiopic
- inception
- 0100-00-00
- native label
- ግዕዝ
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