An extinct Ethiopic language still used liturgically.
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An Ethiopian language which is extinct but still used liturgically.
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The writing system originally used for the Ge’ez language.
An abugida script which was originally developed to write Ge'ez, a Semitic language.
noun
a Semitic language of ancient Ethiopia, now used only as the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Church.
Some linguists do not believe that Geʻez constitutes the common ancestor of modern Ethiopian languages, but that Geʻez became a separate language early on from some hypothetical, completely unattested language, and can thus be seen as an extinct sister language of Tigre and Tigrinya.