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Ge'ez (also transliterated Gi'iz, and less precisely called Ethiopic) is an ancient South Semitic language that originated in the northern region of Ethiopia and southern Eritrea in the Horn of Africa. It later became the official language of the Kingdom of Aksum and Ethiopian imperial court. Today Ge'ez remains only as the main language used in the liturgy of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Ethiopian Catholic Church, and also the Beta Israel Jewish community. However, in Ethiopia Amharic (the main lingua franca of modern Ethiopia) or other local languages, and in Eritrea and Tigray Region in Ethiopia, Tigrinya may be used for sermons. Tigrinya and Tigre are closely related to Ge'ez, but their exact relationship remains controversial, with at least four different configurations proposed. Some linguists do not believe that Ge'ez constitutes the common ancestor of modern Ethiopian languages, but that Ge'ez became a separate language early on from some hypothetical, completely unattested language, and can thus be seen an extinct sister language of Tigre and Tigrinya. The foremost Ethiopian experts such as Amsalu Aklilu point to the vast proportion of inherited nouns that are unchanged, and even spelled identically in both Ge'ez and Amharic (and to a lesser degree, Tigrinya).
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Names (more)

[am] ግዕዝ
[ar] الجيز
[an] Ge'ez
[az] qez dili
[bn] গীজ
[bs] džiz
[br] Geuzeg
[bg] Геез
[ca] Gueez
[cs] Ge'ez
[da] Geez
[de] Ge’ez
[el] Γκιζ
[en] Ge'ez language
[eo] Geeza lingvo
[et] etioopia
[eu] Ge'ez
[fa] زبان گعز
[fi] Ge’ezin kieli
[fr] Ge'ez
[gu] ગીઝ
[sh] Giz
[he] געז
[hi] गिइज़ भाषा
[hr] Geez
[hu] geez
[id] Bahasa Ge'ez
[is] gís
[it] Lingua ge'ez
[ja] ゲエズ語
[kn] ಗೀಝ್
[ks] گیٖز
[ka] გეეზი
[kk] Эфиоп Тілі
[ko] 게이즈어
[lo] ກີ
[la] Lingua Aethiopica
[lv] gēzu
[lt] Gezo kalba
[ml] ഗീയസ് ഭാഷ
[mr] गीझ
[mk] Геез
[mt] Geez
[ms] Bahasa Ge'ez
[nl] Ge'ez
[nn] ges
[nb] ges
[no] Ge'ez
[or] ଗୀଜ୍
[pl] Język gyyz
[pt] Língua ge'ez
[rm] geez
[ro] Limba gî'îz
[ru] Геэз
[sk] etiópčina
[sl] Giz
[es] Ge'ez
[sr] Џиз
[sw] Ge'ez
[sv] Ge'ez
[ta] கீஜ்
[te] జీజ్
[th] กีซ
[tr] Geez
[uk] гєез
[vi] Tiếng Geez
[zh] 吉茲語

Language type : Ancient

Language resources for Geez

Open Languages Archives

Wiktionary - Category:Ge'ez language [en]
Wiktionnaire - Catégorie:guèze [fr]

Technical notes

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ISO 639 Codes

ISO 639-2B : gez
ISO 639-2T : gez
ISO 639-3 : gez

Linked Data URIs

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/gez
http://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:gez
http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/gez

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Sources

Authority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: gez

Freebase ISO 639-3 : gez
GeoNames.org Country Information

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Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages