Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ancient Afro-Asiatic language that is related to Amharic and other modern languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea and is still used as a liturgical language in the Ethiopian Coptic Church.
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- proper noun An
extinct Ethiopian language still usedliturgically . - proper noun The writing system originally used for the Ge’ez language
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Furthermore, Semitic is a language group not a genetic group - the language group consists of Hebrew, Aramaic (Syriac), Arabic, Akkadian, Ge'ez, Ugaritic and Phoenician.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Aksumites - spoke Ge'ez, later evolved into the Habeshas
The Palestinian Mufti's Deal with Hitler: Kill All the Jews in the Middle East 2007
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Languages fitting your silly and deliberately limiting definition are known to include Ge'ez, Old Nubian and Meriotic.
Racist Professor: “I cannot understand how I could have said what I am quoted as having said" 2007
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Ge'ez is still used, rather like Latin which it pre-dates, in church in Ethiopia.
Racist Professor: “I cannot understand how I could have said what I am quoted as having said" 2007
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If you ever get the chance, consider attending one of their liturgies that's celebrated in the ancient Ge'ez Ethiopian.
something I've been brooding about Dymphna 2007
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Ge'ez is the liturgical language of Ethiopia; it bears a relationship to Amharic similar to that of Sanskrit to the modern Indic languages.
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But I'd list Amharic and Ge'ez separately as two languages, based on the liturgical exemption.
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Perhaps Coptic is the Hellenistic version, and Ge'ez a later also extinct descendant of Coptic.
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I remember reading that the dead liturgical language is called Ge'ez or Ethiopic.
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I haven't been able to Google Ge'ez contrastive to Coptic.
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