Ge'ez

Details

Instance of

language, sacred language, dead language, ancient language, extinct language

Subclass of

Ethiopian Semitic

Country

Ethiopia, Eritrea

Religion

Eritrean Catholic Church, Ethiopian Catholic Church, Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church

described by source

Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)

different from

Geʽez script

dissolved, abolished or demolished

13th century

indigenous to

Kingdom of Aksum, Beta Israel

linguistic typology

verb–subject–object

native label

ግዕዝ

topic's main category

Category:Ge'ez language

UNESCO language status

6 extinct

Wikimedia language code

gez

writing system

Geʽez script

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