Concept information
Preferred term
gezGeez
Type
-
Language
Definition
- Geez (ግዕዝ, ; also transliterated Giiz, and less precisely called Ethiopic) is an ancient South Semitic language that originated in southern Arabia (modern Yemen) and was further developed 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.
Entry terms
- Ge'ez language
ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code
- gez
ISO 639-2 Terminological code
- gez
ISO 639-3 code
- gez
Notation
- gez
In other languages
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Ge'ez
French
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guèze
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Geez
German
-
Ge’ez
-
geez
Italian
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Lingua ge'ez
-
Portuguese
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Língua ge'ez
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geez
Spanish
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Ge'ez
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/gez
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