Geʽez

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Geʽez is an ancient Semitic language of Ethiopia that served as the liturgical and classical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the ancestor of several modern Ethiopian and Eritrean languages.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Geʽez canonical 54
Geʽez language 3
Geʻez 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Semitic language
ancient language
classical language
liturgical language
ancestorOf Amharic
Argobba language
Gafat language
Harari language
Tigre
Tigrinya
countryOrRegion Eritrea
Ethiopia
directionOfWriting left-to-right
glottologCode geez1241
hasMorphologicalFeature root-and-pattern morphology
triconsonantal roots
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
guttural consonants
historicalPeriodOfUse Kingdom of Aksum
linked to: Aksumite Empire
ISO639-2Code gez
ISO639-3Code gez
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
liturgicalLanguageOf Beta Israel
linked to: Ethiopian Jews

Eritrean Catholic Church
Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Ethiopian Catholic Church
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
regionOfCulturalInfluence Horn of Africa
religiousText Fetha Nagast
Geʽez Bible
linked to: Ge'ez Bible

Kebra Nagast
Miracles of Mary
Synaxarium (Senkessar)
religiousTradition Eastern Catholicism
Oriental Orthodoxy
scriptType abugida
status no longer spoken as a native language
subfamily South Semitic languages
subgroup Ethiopian Semitic languages
linked to: Ethiopian Semitic
use biblical translation
classical Ethiopian literature
hagiography
liturgical chant
religious literature
writingSystem Geʽez script
writingSystemUsedBy Amharic
Tigre
Tigrinya
several other Ethiopian languages

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (60)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Amharic closelyRelatedTo Geʽez
Amharic historicalAncestor Geʽez
Amharic hasLoanwordsFrom Geʽez
Tigrinya sharesScriptWith Geʽez
Aksumite Empire language Geʽez
Falasha etymologyLanguage Geʽez
Kes languageOfTerm Geʽez
subject linked to: kes
Geʽez hasAlternativeName Geʾez
subject linked to: Geez
linked to: Geʽez
Geʽez script usedForLanguage Geʽez language
linked to: Geʽez
Tigre closelyRelatedTo Geʽez
Amhara liturgicalLanguage Geʽez
subject linked to: Amhara (commonly reported)
Yonas hasLanguageUsage Geʽez
Tigray-Tigrinya people heritage Geʽez literary tradition
linked to: Geʽez
Solomonic dynasty language Geʽez
Zagwe dynasty language Geʽez
Pagumen languageOfName Geʻez
linked to: Geʽez
ትግርኛ ancestor Geʽez
Meskel languageOfName Geʽez
Kebra Nagast language Geʽez
Qwara language relatedTo Geʽez
Ethiopian Missal language Geʽez
Yared languageOfWorkOrName Geʽez
dabtara languageOfLearning Geʽez
Ethiopic Supplement script Geʽez