In Eritrea it has traditionally been used for Tigre and it has also been used for Bilen. It has also been used to write Sebat Bet and other Gurage languages and at least 20 other languages of Ethiopia. The Geʽez script has been adapted to write other languages, mostly Ethiosemitic, particularly Amharic in Ethiopia, and Tigrinya in both Eritrea and Ethiopia. Under the Unicode Standard and ISO 15924, it is defined as Ethiopic text. In the languages Amharic and Tigrinya, the script is often called fidäl ( ፊደል), meaning “script” or “letter”. It originated as an abjad (consonant-only alphabet) and was first used to write the Geʽez language, now the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Eritrean Catholic Church, the Ethiopian Catholic Church, and Haymanot Judaism of the Beta Israel Jewish community in Ethiopia. Geʽez ( Ge'ez: ግዕዝ, romanized: Gəʿəz) is a script used as an abugida (alphasyllabary) for several Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa. BCEĪdlam (slight influence from Arabic) 1989 CE Caucasian Albanian (origin uncertain) c.Cherokee (syllabary letter forms only) c.
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