Ethiopic

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Alternate Names Ge'ez, Ge'ez
ISO 15924 Ethi 430
Type Abugida
Family South Semitic Script
Direction LtR
Diacritics Yes
Contextual Forms No
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 202
Earliest Location Near the core of the Aksumite Ethiopian Kingdom
Earliest Date 500 BCE
Latest Date Present
Ancestry
    • Ethiopic

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Coulmas, Florian 1999 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 137-149 Blackwell Publishing
Gragg, Gene 2004 The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Worlds Ancient Languages, Ge'ez, 427-453 Cambridge University Press
Haile, Getatchew 1996 The World's Writing Systems, Ethiopic Writing, 569-576 Oxford University Press