Gǝʿǝz is a Semitic language of the Ethiopian Semitic group, first attested as the official language of the kingdom of Axum, and eventually used as liturgical, literary, and administrative language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and of the post-Axumite medieval and premodern Christian polities in present-day Ethiopia and Eritrea. The corpus of Gǝʿǝz texts consists of a few original epigraphic texts, translations from Greek in Late Antiquity and from Arabic since medieval time, and original literary and documentary texts from the medieval to the modern time.
Gǝʿǝz language / Bausi, Alessandro. - (2023), pp. 1-2. [10.1002/9781119399919].
Gǝʿǝz language
Bausi, Alessandro
2023
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Gǝʿǝz is a Semitic language of the Ethiopian Semitic group, first attested as the official language of the kingdom of Axum, and eventually used as liturgical, literary, and administrative language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and of the post-Axumite medieval and premodern Christian polities in present-day Ethiopia and Eritrea. The corpus of Gǝʿǝz texts consists of a few original epigraphic texts, translations from Greek in Late Antiquity and from Arabic since medieval time, and original literary and documentary texts from the medieval to the modern time.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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