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South Semitic — Infobox Language family name = South Semitic region = Yemen, Oman, Ethiopia, Eritrea familycolor = Afro Asiatic fam2 = Semitic child1 = Eastern (Modern South Arabian) child2 = Western (Old South Arabian, Ethiopian)South Semitic is one of the… … Wikipedia
Ethiopic languages — Group of Semitic languages, spoken by more than 25 million people in Eritrea and Ethiopia. Ethiopic has been divided by linguists into North Ethiopic, comprising Geʾez, Tigré, and Tigrinya (or Tigrai), and South Ethiopic, comprising the rest of… … Universalium
Ethiopic alphabet — writing system used to write the Geʿez (Geʿez language) literary and ecclesiastical language and the Amharic, Tigre, and Tigrinya languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Apparently derived from Sabaean, a South Semitic (South Semitic alphabet)… … Universalium
South Semitic alphabet — any of a group of minor scripts originating in the Arabian (Arabia, history of) Peninsula in about 1000 BC, possibly related to the writing system used in the Sinaitic inscriptions. These scripts, most of which were used only in the Arabian … Universalium
Ethiopic Ocean — The Ethiopic Ocean or Ethiopian Ocean is an older name for what is now called the South Atlantic Ocean, which is separated from the North Atlantic by a narrow region between Natal, Brazil and Monrovia, Liberia. Use of term illustrates a past… … Wikipedia
ethiopic alphabet — noun Usage: usually capitalized E : an alphabet of South Semitic origin in which the vocalization is indicated by modification of the basic character (as by the addition of small appendages or by shortening or lengthening of one of the main… … Useful english dictionary
Semitic languages — Family of Afro Asiatic languages spoken in northern Africa and South Asia. No other language family has been attested in writing over a greater time span from the late 3rd millennium BC to the present. Both traditional and some recent… … Universalium
Ethiopian Semitic languages — Ethiopian Semitic Geographic distribution: Ethiopia, Eritrea Linguistic classification: Afro Asiatic Semitic South Semitic Western … Wikipedia
Wolf Leslau — (November 14, 1906 November 18, 2006) was a scholar of Semitic languages and one of the foremost authorities on Semitic languages of Ethiopia. LifeBorn in Poland, he studied Semitology at the University of Vienna and Sorbonne. When Nazi Germany… … Wikipedia
Zay language — language name=Zay nativename= states=Ethiopia region=Lake Zway speakers=4,880 familycolor=Afro Asiatic fam1=Afro Asiatic fam2=Semitic fam3=South Semitic fam4=Ethiopic fam5=South Ethiopic fam6=Transverse fam7=East Gurage iso2=sem|iso3=zwaThe Zay… … Wikipedia
