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For Geʽez, Amharic, Tigrinya and Tigre, the usual sort order is called halähamä (h–l–ħ–m). Where the labiovelar variants are used, these come immediately after the basic consonant and are followed by other variants. In Tigrinya, for example, the letters based on ከ come in this order: ከ, ኰ, ኸ, ዀ. In Bilen, the sorting order ...
Although it differs markedly from the Geʽez (Classical Ethiopic) language, for instance in having phrasal verbs, and in using a word order that places the main verb last instead of first in the sentence, there is a strong influence of Geʽez on Tigrinya literature, especially with terms relating to Christian life, Biblical names, and so on. [4]
The Ge'ez alphabet (Ethiopic script), is used in East Africa for the Agaw languages, Amharic language, Gurage languages, and the Tigrinya language among others. The syllabary evolved from the script for classical Ge'ez, which is now a liturgical language. macOS has supported Ethiopic since 2010 with the 'Kefa' font.
In languages that use it, such as Amharic and Tigrinya, the script is called Fidäl, which means script or alphabet. Geʽez is read from left to right. The Geʽez script has been adapted to write other languages, usually ones that are also Semitic. The most widespread use is for Amharic in Ethiopia and Tigrinya in Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Ethiopic is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Geʽez, Tigrinya, Amharic, Tigre, Harari, Gurage and other Ethiosemitic languages and Central Cushitic languages or Agaw languages. Block
Geʽez Braille is a collection of braille alphabets for the Ethiopian languages that are written in Geʽez script in print. [citation needed] Letter values are mostly in line with international usage.
Tigre has a lexical similarity of 71% with Ge’ez and of 64% with Tigrinya. [1] As of 1997, Tigre was spoken by approximately 800,000 Tigre people in Eritrea. [ 6 ] The Tigre mainly inhabit western Eritrea, though they also reside in the northern highlands of Eritrea and its extension into the adjacent parts of Sudan, as well as Eritrea's Red ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Tigrinya on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Tigrinya in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.