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Explore the Ethiopic Geʻez Alphabet: ሀ ሁ ሂ ሃ ሄ. Discover all 241 letters with precise names, transcription and pronunciation. Dive into the linguistic richness of the {alphabet name} alphabet on SYMBL ( ‿ )
There is no standard way of transliterating the Ge'ez script into the Latin alphabet. Used to write Ge'ez (ግዕዝ), the classical language of Ethiopia which is still used as a liturgical language by Ethiopian christians and the Beta Israel Jewish community of Ethiopia.
Geʽez (Ge'ez: ግዕዝ, romanized:Gəʽəz, IPA: [ˈɡɨʕɨz] ⓘ) is a script used as an abugida (alphasyllabary) for several Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
The chart below lists /ɬ/ and /t͡ɬʼ/ as possible values for ś (ሠ) and ḍ (ፀ) respectively. It also lists /χ/ as a possible value for ḫ (ኀ). These values are tentative, but based on the reconstructed Proto-Semitic consonants that they are descended from.
The Ge'ez script (Ge'ez: ግዕዝ, Gəʿəz), also known as Ethiopic, is a writing system native to Eastern Africa. It is the alphabet used in several languages of Eritrea and Ethiopia. The script is used as an abugida (alphasyllabary) for languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya.
5 dni temu · Ge’ez script is a script used in modern-day Eritrea and Ethiopia that dates back to the 1st century CE. Ge’ez was derived from the Ancient South Arabian script from the region around modern-day YemenUnlike a modern alphabet, the script began as an abjad, where only consonant letters are listed, but became an abugida, or a writing system ...
The Geʿez alphabet consists of twenty-six “base” forms of the consonants and an additional six syllabary forms of each “base” form. The originators of the alphabet maintained the traditional order of the letters and included no labialized consonants (see Table 2.2).
