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Gee'z

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Also known as Ge'ez, Ge'ez script, Ethiopia script, Ethiopia alphabet, Ethiopic, Ethi

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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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Vinony's link graph records 1,103 inbound references to Gee'z, and connects out to Georgian scripts, Ulu scripts and cuneiform.

It sits within the topics Abugida writing systems, Alphabetic numeral systems and Ge'ez language.

Vinony links it to 52 Wikipedia language editions.

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
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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