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Geʽez ( Ge'ez: ግዕዝ, romanized: Gəʽəz, IPA: [ˈɡɨʕɨz] ⓘ) is a script used as an abugida (alphasyllabary) for several Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Ge'ez (ግዕዝ Gəʿəz) adalah sebuah naskah yang digunakan sebagai abugida (abjad suku kata) untuk beberapa bahasa Ethiopia dan Eritrea tetapi berasal dari Abjad (alfabet hanya konsonan) yang digunakan untuk menulis Ge'ez, sekarang merupakan bahasa liturgi untuk Gereja Ortodoks Ethiopia dan Eritrea.
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Ge'ez (ግዕዝ, ' Gəʿəz ' [ɡɨʕɨz]; juga ditransliterasikan Gi'iz, dan disebut Ethiopik) adalah sebuah bahasa Semitik Selatan kuno yang berkembang di kawasan utara Ethiopia dan Eritrea selatan di Tanduk Afrika. Bahasa ini kemudian menjadi bahasa resmi Kerajaan Aksum dan mahkamah ke kaisaran Ethiopia .
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It is usually written from right to left but can also be written from left to right. When written from left to right the characters are flipped horizontally (see the photo).The spacing or separation between words is done with a vertical bar mark (|).Letters in words are not connected together.It does not implement any diacritical marks (dots, etc.), differing in this respect from the modern Arabic alphabet.Difference from the Arabic script
The Musnad script differs from the Arabic script, which most linguists believe developed from the Nabataean script in the fourth century AD, which in turn developed from the Aramaic script. The languages of the Southern Musnad script also differ greatly from the Northern Arabic language,in terms of script, lexicon, grammar, styles, and perhaps sounds, and the letters of the script increase. The Musnad is derived from Arabic with one sibilant letter (some call it samikh) or the third sīn.
Six signs are used for numbers: The sign for 50 was evidently created by removing the lower triangle from the sign for 100.The sign for 1 doubles as a word separator. The other four signs double as both letters and numbers. Each of these four signs is the first letter of the name of the corresponding numeral. An additional sign (𐩿) is used to brac...
Zabūr, also known as "South Arabian minuscules", is the name of the cursive form of the South Arabian script that was used by the Sabaeansin addition to their monumental script, or Musnad. Zabur was a writing system in ancient Yemen along with Musnad. The difference between the two is that Musnad documented historical events, meanwhile Zabur writin...
The South Arabian alphabet was added to the UnicodeStandard in October, 2009 with the release of version 5.2. The Unicode block, called Old South Arabian, is U+10A60–U+10A7F. Note that U+10A7D OLD SOUTH ARABIAN NUMBER ONE (𐩽) represents both the numeral one and a word divider.
The scholar of Yemeni inscriptions, Mutahar Al-Eryani, was keen to record a memorial in the Musnad script and in the Sabaean language, commemorating the renovation of the Ma’rib Dam in 1986, which was carried out at the expense of Sheikh Zayed and in conjunction with the celebration of victory in the North Yemen Civil War against the Kingdom of Yem...
Photos from National Museum of Yemen:Photos from Yemen Military Museum:Photo from the British MuseumIncense burner, from Yemen, 5th-4th century BCE. An ancient South Arabian inscription about the names of incenseArabist and archeologist Eduard GlaserGeographer Carl RathjensSmithsonian National Museum of Natural History Archived 2010-06-16 at the Wayback Machine3 days ago · Ge’ez script is a script used in modern-day Eritrea and Ethiopia that dates back to the 1st century CE.
Geʽez ) is a script used as an abugida for several Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
