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Ge'ez Script

An abugida of Ethiopic civilization, created for Ge'ez and still writing Amharic and Tigrinya; the script of the Ethiopian biblical canon and its vast manuscript tradition.

Languages Written in This Script

The Codex Gigas, the largest surviving medieval illuminated manuscript

Liturgical only Ge'ez (Ethiopic) Ancient South Semitic language of the Ethiopian church: its liturgy, its enlarged biblical canon, and its manuscript tradition. Afroasiatic

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