Santwyne/Sandbox/Learning Ge'ez

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Ge'ez (ግዕዝ) is an abugida (syllable alphabet) used for several languages in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It was first used to write Ge'ez, now the liturgical language of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Churches. In Amharic and Tigrinya, the script is often called fidäl (ፊደል), meaning "alphabet" or "script". In addition to Amharic and Tigrinya, the Ge'ez script is also used for the Dawro language.

Ge'ez evolved from Egyptian hieroglyphs

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Structure

Devanagari writing is often likened to a washing line: a line is drawn above the words, and the letters are hung out to dry below the line. A break in the line indicates a break between words.

Devanagari is classified as an abugida, which means that each character represents a syllable, not a single letter as in English. If the character is a consonant, the implicit vowel following it is assumed to be a, unless modified by special vowel signs added above, below, after or even before the character.