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	Ethiopic. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Ethiopic (also called Geez or classical Ethiopic) ceased to be a spoken tongue in Ethiopia some time before the 14th cent.
		B.C. The native Cushitic tongues of Ethiopia (which are also Afroasiatic languages) exerted a degree of influence on the newly arrived Semitic language or languages with respect to grammar, vocabulary, and phonology.
		Although the script used for Ethiopic and other Semitic tongues of Ethiopia is syllabic rather than alphabetic, it seems to be derived from the alphabetic South Semitic writing of the Old South Arabian inscriptions, to which it shows many similarities.
	www.bartleby.com /65/et/Ethiopic.html (316 words)

	Semitic Languages - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The language spoken some time afterwards by the Palestinian Jews, especially in Galilee, is exhibited in a series of rabbinical works, the so-called Jerusalem Targums (of which, however, those on the Hagiographa are in some cases of later date), a few Midrashic works, and the Jerusalem Talmud.
		This language lived on, in a sense, through the whole of the middle ages, owing chiefly to the fact that it was intended for educated persons in general and not only for the learned, whereas the poetical schools strove to preserve exactly the grammar and the lexicon of the long extinct language of the Bedouins.
		This is not fundamentally the case with Amharic, a language of which the domain extends from the left bank of the Takkaze into regions far to the south.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SE/SEMITIC_LANGUAGES.htm (18404 words)

	Ethiopic - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ETHIOPIC [Ethiopic], extinct language of Ethiopia belonging to the North Ethiopic group of the South Semitic (or Ethiopic) languages, which, in turn, belong to the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages (see Afroasiatic languages).
		Ethiopic (also called Geez or classical Ethiopic) ceased to be a spoken tongue in Ethiopia some time before the 14th cent.
		Although the script used for Ethiopic and other Semitic tongues of Ethiopia is syllabic rather than alphabetic, it seems to be derived from the alphabetic South Semitic writing of the Old South Arabian inscriptions, to which it shows many similarities.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ethiopic.html (323 words)

	Simplified Spelling Society : Ethiopic writing system. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Giiz inscriptions in the Ethiopic script can be traced back to the 4th century AD when Giiz was the language of the empire of Aksum, a flourishing Semitic civilization based in what is now northern Ethiopia, but with wide military and trading contacts in the neighbouring territories and far beyond.
		Amharic has been the language of the politically dominant ethnic group in Ethiopia for many hundreds of years, and, with the exception of one Tigrinya speaker in the nineteenth century, it has been the language of the emperor, the /nɨgusə nəgəst/, literally, 'king of kings' as the Giiz title puts it.
		It has also been the official language of the state, the day-to-day language of the Church (outside the liturgy, gospels, etc.), the language of primary education as well as a widespread lingua franca (there are others) and the mother tongue of over fifteen million people.
	www.spellingsociety.org /journals/j19/ethiopic.php (4950 words)

	Cultural identity and local content development on the World Wide Web : the CyberEthiopia Initiative
		The ancient Ge'ez language is the ancestor of the modern Tigrinya and Tigré languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
		Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia and is native to the central and northwestern provinces.
		The Omotic languages, chief among which is Walaita, are not widespread, being spoken mostly in the densely populated areas of the extreme southwest.
	www.cyberethiopia.com /infocom2004/paper (2746 words)

	Imperial Ethiopia - Ethiopian Languages
		In Ethiopia, this language is Amharic, a Semitic tongue.
		Ethiopia's Semitic languages are written in a unique script of two hundred characters which represent syllables and compound sounds rather than individual letters.
		In multi-ethnic nations such as Ethiopia, the use of an "official" language is sometimes criticised on the basis of its representing only a certain part of the population, with the minority populations reacting against the dominance of a foreign tongue.
	www.imperialethiopia.org /languages.htm (344 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ethiopic (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		Ethiopic[EthEop´ik] Pronunciation Key, extinct language of Ethiopia belonging to the North Ethiopic group of the South Semitic (or Ethiopic) languages, which, in turn, belong to the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages (see Afroasiatic languages).
		Because Ethiopic is close to Old South Arabian lexically and grammatically, it has been suggested that its speakers originally came from S Arabia, whence they apparently began to migrate to Ethiopia in the first millennium
		B.C. The native Cushitic tongues of Ethiopia (which are also Afroasiatic languages) exerted a degree of influence on the newly arrived Semitic language or languages with respect to grammar, vocabulary, and phonology.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/E/Ethiopic.html (377 words)

	Language and Scripts
		Some languages are, or have historically been, written in more than one script.
		For less common languages it is often difficult to determine the precise list of characters used to write them.
		The "Notes" field lists some countries in which the language is used, especially for lesser-known languages, but is not intended to be exhaustive.
	www.unicode.org /onlinedat/languages-scripts.html (268 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Ethiopic
		The elegant Ethiopic script is another interesting story in the family tree of Proto-Sinaitic script.
		Ethiopic is an offshoot of the South Arabian script.
		The Ethiopic script was used for the liturgical language Ge'ez as well as modern languages like Amharic (the official language of Ethiopia), Tigre, Tigrinya, and other languages of Ethiopia.
	www.ancientscripts.com /ethiopic.html (237 words)

	African Local Languages
		The Bamako Declaration acknowledged the continent's rich cultural diversity and urged that it should be reflected in cyberspace with accompanying funds for digital archiving of traditional knowledge and heritage as Africa's contribution to the global information society.
		In this regard, a workshop was recently organised that discussed on the issues concerning Ethiopic standards need assessment, strategies for development, adoption and dissemination of the standards, and resource mobilization.
		Ethiopic is the script used to write Amharic, the official working language of Ethiopia, as well as many other Semitic and Cushitic languages in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
	www.uneca.org /aisi/all.htm (306 words)

	OHCHR: Amharic () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Amharic is the national language of Ethiopia and is spoken by around 12 million people as their mother-tongue and by many more as a second language.
		Though only one of the seventy or so languages spoken in Ethiopia, Amharic has been the language of the court and the dominant population group in Highland Ethiopia since at least the late 13th century and remains the official language of Ethiopia today.
		All the Ethiopic languages are descended from Ge'ez, the ancient literary and ecclesiastic language of Ethiopia.
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/amh.htm (263 words)

	Afroasiatic Languages - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
		According to one theory, the languages of the Afroasiatic family are thought to have first been spoken along the shores of the Red Sea.
		A Semitic language (or languages) was brought from S Arabia to Ethiopia during the first millennium &BC; At that time the indigenous languages of Ethiopia were Cushitic, and these languages strongly influenced the imported Semitic tongues.
		The Omotic languages were formerly classified with the Cushitic and are spoken by perhaps 3 million people who live in SW Ethiopia in the Omo River region.
	www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/search/search.php?word=Afroasia (2095 words)

	A Glossary of CE Terms
		``Ethiopic'' is the term most widely recognized used in the west to refer to the Ge'ez writing system and the languages unique to Ethiopia and Eritrea.
		Modern Ethiopic descends from the Ge'ez syllabary where the Ge'ez is found as a 26x7 array subset.
		Ethiopic encoding under JUNET is used by Mule.
	www.abyssiniacybergateway.net /admas/docs/ce-terms.html (2007 words)

	Senamirmir Project: Ethiopic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ethiopic refers to Ge'ez or Classic Ge'ez, one of the ancient languages of Ethiopia which is now mainly used in Ethiopian Orthodox Church as liturgical language.
		Ethiopic Script is syllabic, that is each character embodies "consonant+vowel" characteristics.
		The Unicode Ethiopic standard is by far a promising one.
	www.senamirmir.com /projects/ethiopic/ethiopic_proj.html (568 words)

	Showcases :: Ethiopic Gospels
		The Ethiopic Church was able to maintain only tenuous links with the rest of Christianity through the Coptic Church in Egypt, which managed to survive under its country’s Islamic rulers.
		The Bible of the Ethiopic Church preserved some writings that were rejected or lost by other Churches, such as the ‘Book of Jubilees’, the ‘Third Book of Ezra’ and the ‘Apocalypse of St Peter’.
		This copy of the Ethiopic Gospels is a replica of a precious illuminated manuscript from the early 15th century.
	www.bl.uk /onlinegallery/themes/asianafricanman/ethiopic.html (791 words)

	Ethiopic - OLPCWiki
		The Ethiopic syllabary is is the writing system used for several languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea, including Amharic, Tigrinya, and the liturgical language Ge'ez.
		Please note that there may be additions to the Ethiopic characters in the Unicode standard in the coming years, as more linguistic work is done.
		There is a mention of Ethiopic on pages 4 and 5 of this document.
	wiki.laptop.org /index.php/Ethiopic (124 words)

	The Hail Mary in Various Languages
		Cornish is a language of the Celtic family of Indo-European languages spoken initially in Cornwall and the southwest of England.
		As such, it has been the language of the ruling group in Ethiopia since the late thirteenth century though its widespread use as a written Ianguage was encouraged by the Ethiopian emperor Tewodros (Theodore) II during the second half of the nineteenth century.
		There is an Academy of the Galician Language, and it has had many decades of development as an ecclesiastical language, a language of serious literature, including poetry, essays on novel, ideological, philosophical, and sociological topics, and for all levels of education, including higher education.
	campus.udayton.edu /mary/resources/flhm01.html (5103 words)

	Ethiopic Unicode Fonts
		The Ethiopic syllabary is used in central east Africa for Amharic, Bilen, Oromo, Tigré, Tigrinya, and other languages.
		The Unicode implementation of Ethiopic is described in chapter 12 (Additional Modern Scripts) of The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0.
		Names, images, properties and additional background/non-technical information about the Ethiopic Unicode block and its characters can be found on decodeunicode's Ethiopic block page (in English and German/Deutsch).
	www.wazu.jp /gallery/Fonts_Ethiopic.html (841 words)

	LaserAmharic in Unicode
		LaserAmharic in Unicode provides 6 high-quality, Unicode-encoded Amharic (or Ethiopic) TrueType® fonts in two typestyles (EthiopicU and AmharicU) for typing at least 26 languages in the Hamito-Semitic family of languages which use the Ge'ez script.
		Ethiopic languages are commonly typed with either a wide blank wordspace or a wide space with dots (
		As described above, in order to support both ancient and modern Ethiopic texts plus English, we provide the narrow (English-sized) blank space, the wide (Ethiopic-sized) blank wordspace (which is not yet in the Unicode standard), and the wide space with dots (which is part of the Unicode standard).
	www.linguistsoftware.com /lamu.htm (1589 words)

	Ethiopic — Infoplease.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Amharic - Amharic, language of Ethiopia belonging to the South Ethiopic group of South Semitic languages,...
		Afroasiatic languages: The Semitic Languages - The Semitic Languages The Semitic languages are believed to have evolved from a hypothetical parent...
		Afroasiatic languages: The Role of Semitic Languages in the Development of Writing Systems - The Role of Semitic Languages in the Development of Writing Systems The writing used for Semitic...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0817780.html (306 words)

	Ge'ez language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most widespread use is for Amharic in Ethiopia and Tigrinya in Eritrea and Ethiopia.
		It is also used for Sebatbeit, Me'en, and most other languages of Ethiopia.
		Dillmann, August; Bezold, Carl, Ethiopic Grammar, 2nd edition translated from German by James Crichton, London 1907.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ge'ez_language (2147 words)

	Index of languages by writing system
		This is a list of the languages featured on Omniglot arranged by the writing systems with which they are written.
		For example, in Central Asia many languages were originally written with the Arabic alphabet, then switched to the Latin alphabet during the 1920s, then to the Cyrillic alphabet during the 1930s or 1940s.
		Please note: some of these languages, such as Bosnian and Turkish, were once written with the Arabic alphabet, but nowadays are normally written with a different alphabet, such as Latin or Cyrillic.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/languages.htm (265 words)

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		Hindi, the official language of India, has almost 500 million speakers around the world.
		Some estimates put Hindi as the second most spoken language in the worls after Manadarin Chinese.
		The seminar generated a huge interest among the audience, particularly among the high-school and college students who are considered among the heavy mobile phone users in the country.
	www.feedelix.com /news.php (1221 words)

	SERA
		In this case, the systematicity of the mapping of Ethiopic to ASCII is exploited to make the machine translation between ASCII and Ethiopic script (in word processors, for example) as fast as possible.
		Fidel, the Ethiopic syllabary, on the other hand, is highly regular and has a quite clearly defined set of vowel markings which were added to a base consonant/radical.
		It is more plausible to see in Ethiopic a move from the Sabean alphabet back into a syllabic form, but with a standardization based on awareness of the explicit relationship between consonants and vowels.
	www.ethiopians.com /abass12.html (3596 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It has been quite some time since Word-processing for Ethiopic languages have been conquered in the DOS applications.
		Because of the limited market, a fully localized version for the Ethiopic languages is not in sight.
		Localizing here means that all of the Windows menus and dialog characters including file naming conventions to be in Ethiopic languages.
	www.ethiopians.com /fekade.html (517 words)

	Syriac Influence on the Style of the Kur'an. By The Rev. Alphonse Mingana, D.D. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The language of Homer had a fine literature behind it, the language of the Kur'an had not.
		We must remark, however, that the very restricted knowledge which all the Muslim authors had of the other Semitic languages besides Arabic often renders their conclusions very unreliable and misleading, and the critic should use great caution in handling their books, which at best are only good as historical preambles to the subject under consideration.
		In Ethiopic both names appear also as Ilyas and Yunus, but from the Syriac vocable (dhu-n) nun, "(he of the) fish," by which the Kur'an names Jonah (xxi, 87), it is more probable to suppose that he got his name also from the Syrians.
	www.answering-islam.org /Books/Mingana/Influence (6371 words)

	Ethiopic language and culture
		Extinct language of Ethiopia belonging to the Semitic subfamily of the Hamito-Semitic family of languages.
		This is a groundbreaking book about the history and principles of Ethiopic, an African writing system designed as a meaningful and graphic representation of a wide array of knowledge, including languages.
		Ethiopic Extension for Mule-2.3 The Ethiopic package in Emacs-20.x uses a different character set from the one used in Mule-2.3.
	www.lonweb.org /link-ethiopic.htm (2671 words)

	Ethiopic Software - Mac, Ethiopic Software - Windows, Ethiopic Fonts, Ethiopic Reference, Ethiopic System, Ethiopic ...
		One of the Semitic Languages, Ethiopic is a relative of Arabic and Hebrew,but most closely related to the South Arabian languages and to the modern South Semitic languages of Ethiopia, notably Amharic.
		Ethiopic is the traditional language of Ethiopian Christian Church.
		Ethiopic literature began with translation of Bible and Christian texts of all kinds: early translation were made in Greek, but many later ones came from Arabic versions, and in many cases the intermediate ones do not survive.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Ethiopic.htm (148 words)

	Ethiopic Languages User Interface (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		These languages will generally be those using Ethiopic script as their writing system.
		Ethiopic languages using other scripts may also be specified.
		The dialog expressions used by the operating system and software that may be applied through National Language Support.
	www.abyssiniacybergateway.net /admas/docs/elux.html (139 words)

	Internationalized Domain Names - Scripts and Languages from VeriSign, Inc.
		The testbed is based on scripts, not written languages.
		Many written languages use multiple scripts and some words may not be available in the testbed, because they include characters from unsupported scripts.
		The valid characters for the Internationalized Domain Name Testbed are those identified within the Unicode 3.0 specification as modified by 3.0.1 and passed through IETF's IDN Name Preparation draft version 3.
	www.verisign.com /information-services/naming-services/internationalized-domain-names/page_001382.html (212 words)

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