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Geʽez
Geʽez;
Script type	Abugida
Time period	c. AD 100 to present
Languages	Semitic languages (e.g. Geʽez, Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre, Harari, etc.), but also Bilen, Meʼen, as one of two scripts in Anuak, and unofficially in some contexts of other languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic script Ancient South Arabian script Geʽez; ; ;
Child systems	Amharic alphabet, Tigrinya various other alphabets of Ethiopia and Eritrea
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Ethi (430), Ethiopic (Geʻez)
Unicode
Unicode alias	Ethiopic
Unicode range	U+1200–U+137F Ethiopic; U+1380–U+139F Ethiopic Supplement; U+2D80–U+2DDF Ethiopic Extended; U+AB00–U+AB2F Ethiopic Extended-A;
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Geʽez (Geʽez: ግዕዝ, Gəʿəz) is a script used as an abugida (alphasyllabary) for several languages of Eritrea and Ethiopia. It originated as an abjad (consonant-only alphabet) and was first used to write Geʽez, now the liturgical language of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, and Beta Israel, the Jewish community in Ethiopia. In Amharic and Tigrinya, the script is often called fidäl (ፊደል), meaning "script" or "alphabet".

^ Himelfarb, Elizabeth J. "First Alphabet Found in Egypt", Archaeology 53, Issue 1 (Jan./Feb. 2000): 21.
^ Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William, eds. (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press, Inc. pp. 89, 98, 569–570. ISBN 978-0-19-507993-7.
^ Gragg, Gene (2004). "Geʽez (Aksum)". In Woodard, Roger D. (ed.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge University Press. p. 431. ISBN 978-0-521-56256-0.