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| | Cultural Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Ethiopic is a groundbreaking book about the history and principles of Ethiopic (Ge'ez), an African Writing System holistically designed as a meaningful and graphic representation of a wide array of knowledge, including, languages. |
 | | It is a knowledge system which is brilliantly organized to represent philosophical features such as ideography, numerology, syllography, astronomy, and grammatology. |
 | | It is also one of the few writing systems with ditinctive major properties like pictography, ideography, syllabry, astrography, numerology and, perhaps even, grammar. |
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