Ge'ez
ancient Semitic language of Ethiopia
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Summary
Ge'ez is a language[1]. Ge'ez ranks in the top 0.55% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,297 views/month, #31 of 5,611).[2]
Key Facts
- Religion or worldview: Eritrean Catholic Church[3], Ethiopian Catholic Church[4], Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church[5]
- Country: Ethiopia[6], Eritrea[7]
- Instance of: sacred language[8], dead language[9], ancient language[10], extinct language[11]
- Subclass of: Ethiopian Semitic[12]
- Writing system: Geʽez script[13]
- Commons category: Ge'ez language[14]
- Wikimedia language code: gez[15]
- Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1201[16]
- Topic's main category: Category:Ge'ez language[17]
- Commons gallery: Ge'ez[18]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[19], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[21], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[22]
- Native label: ግዕዝ[23]
- Different from: Geʽez script[24]
- UNESCO language status: 6 extinct[25], sacred language[26]
- Indigenous to: Kingdom of Aksum[27], Beta Israel[28]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/GEZ[29]
- Linguistic typology: verb–subject–object[30]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Languages[31], WikiProject Ethiopia[32], WikiProject Eritrea[33], WikiProject Africa[34]
Why It Matters
Ge'ez has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] Ge'ez is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]