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- It originated as an abjad (consonant-only alphabet) and was first used to write the Geʽez language, now the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Eritrean Catholic Church, the Ethiopian Catholic Church, and Haymanot Judaism of the Beta Israel Jewish community in Ethiopia.
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2 days ago · Ge’ez was derived from the Ancient South Arabian script from the region around modern-day YemenUnlike a modern alphabet, the script began as an abjad, where only consonant letters are listed, but became an abugida, or a writing system with consonant-vowel sequences written as units, after 350 CE with the influence of Christianity in the ...
2 days ago · 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.
- left-to-right
- Abugida
- c. 1st century CE to present (abjad until c. 4th century CE)
3 days ago · Odia is an alphasyllabic alphabet or an abugida wherein all consonants have an inherent vowel embedded within. Diacritics (which can appear above, below, before or after the consonant they belong to) are used to change the form of the inherent vowel.
- left-to-right
- Oriya
1 day ago · Also simply called Nāgari (Sanskrit: नागरि, Nāgari), it is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental writing system), based on the ancient Brāhmi script. It is one of the official scripts of the Republic of India and Nepal .
- left-to-right
- Devanagari
1 day ago · It was in this way that the Nabataean alphabet became widely used to express the Arabic language and developed into what we think of as the 'Arabic script'. From north-west Arabia, it appears to have spread to Syria in the late fifth century and it is there that the first inscriptions in what is recognizably the Arabic language and script are ...
5 days ago · This Buddha Vihara in Karnataka is a place for peace and high learning. Sanskrit language, (from Sanskrit saṃskṛta, “adorned, cultivated, purified”), an Old Indo-Aryan language in which the most ancient documents are the Vedas, composed in what is called Vedic Sanskrit. Although Vedic documents represent the dialects then found in the ...
4 days ago · Primary Source. Meroitic Script. Annotation. The Meroitic Script was used in the Kingdom of Kush beginning in the 3rd Century BCE, or the Meroitic Period, and had two forms, Meroitic Cursive and Meroitic hieroglyphs. There were 23 letters with four vowels in the Meroitic alphasyllabary (an alphabet where consonant/vowel units are written together).
