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The Geʽez abugida has been adapted to several modern languages of Eritrea and Ethiopia, frequently requiring additional letters. It has been speculated by some scholars in African studies that the Geʽez script had an influence on the Armenian alphabet after it may have been introduced to Armenia at the end of the fifth century.
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.
Coloured linguistic map of Eritrea (Language names are in French, and so are spelled slightly differently) The languages spoken in Eritrea are Tigrinya, Tigre, and Dahlik (formerly considered a dialect of Tigre). Together, they are spoken by around 70% of local residents: Tigrinya, spoken as a first language by the Tigrinya people. As of 2006 ...
4 Ge'ez alphabet. Toggle Ge'ez alphabet subsection ... 4.2 In text. 5 Names of ethnic groups. Toggle the table of contents. Wikipedia: Manual of Style/Eritrea-related ...
Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name. Other informative or qualifying ...
The Latin alphabet is seen as being more neutral and secular. In 1993 the government set up a committee to standardize the Bilen language and the Latin-based orthography. "This overturned a 110-year tradition of writing Blin in Ethiopic script." (Fallon, Bilen Orthography [2]) As of 1997, the alphabetic order was:
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]
Tigre (ትግሬ, [2] [3] Təgré [4]), also known as Tigrayit (ትግራይት), [1] is an Ethio-Semitic language spoken in the Horn of Africa, primarily by the Tigre people of Eritrea. [5] It is believed to be the most closely related living language to Ge'ez , which is still in use as the liturgical language of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo ...