吉茲語

吉茲語（Geʽez，z）或格厄茲語（吉茲語：ግዕዝ，Gəʿəz，ɡɨʕɨz），又稱古典衣索比亞語，是一種古代的語言，現在只作宗教用途。這種語言在東非洲的非洲之角、衣索比亞高原之上發展。
吉茲語經文

**語音學**

**母音**
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**註解**

**註釋**

**參考文獻**
BUD Budge, E. A. Wallis. 1928. A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970.- CHA Chain, M. Ethiopia transcribed by: Donahue M. in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume V. Published 1909. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Nihil Obstat, May 1, 1909. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. + John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York
*DIR Diringer, David. 1968. The Alphabet, A Key To The History of Mankind.
*KOB Kobishchanov, Yuri M. 1979. Axum in SomeCollectionOfWritingsdate=February 2007, edited by Joseph W. Michels; translated by: Lorraine T. Kapitanoff. University Park, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania. ISBN 978-0-271-00531-7.- MAT Matara Aksumite & Pre-Aksumite City Webpage- MUNdate=20130123223427  Munro-Hay Stuart. 1991. Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity. Edinburgh: University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-0106-6.
*PAN68 Pankhurst, Richard K.P. 1968.An Economic History of Ethiopia, 1800-1935, Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie I University Press.- PAN03 date=20160102110515  Pankhurst, Richard K.P. A Glimpse into 16th. Century Ethiopian History Abba 'Enbaqom, Imam Ahmad Ibn Ibrahim, and the "Conquest of Abyssinia". Addis Tribune. November 14, 2003.- PER date=20110614225955  Perruchon, J. D. and Gottheil, Richard. Falashas in The Jewish Encyclopidia. 1901-1906.

**延伸閱讀**
語法- Aläqa Tayyä, Maṣḥafa sawāsəw. Monkullo: Swedish Mission 1896/7 (=1889 according to the Ethiopian calendar).- Dillmann, August; Bezold, Carl, Ethiopic Grammar, 2nd edition translated from German by James Crichton, London 1907. ISBN 978-1-59244-145-7 (2003 reprint). (Published in German: ¹1857, ²1899). - Kidanä Wäld Kəfle, Maṣḥafa sawāsəw wagəss wamazgaba ḳālāt ḥaddis ("A new grammar and dictionary"), Dire Dawa: Artistik Matämiya Bet 1955/6 (=1948 according to the Ethiopian calendar).- Lambdin, Thomas O., Introduction to Classical Ethiopic, Harvard Semitic Studies 24, Missoula, Mont.: Scholars Press 1978. ISBN 978-0-89130-263-6.- Stefan Weninger, Ge'ez grammar, Munich, ISBN 978-3-929075-04-5 (1st edition), ISBN 978-3-89586-604-3 (2nd revised edition).- Gene Gragg Ge`ez Phonology, in: Phonologies of Asia and Africa (Vol 1), ed. A. S. Kaye & P. T. Daniels, Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana (1997).
文學- Taddesse Adera, Ali Jimale Ahmed (eds.), Silence Is Not Golden: A Critical Anthology of Ethiopian Literature, Red Sea Press (1995), ISBN 978-0-932415-47-9.- Jon Bonk, Annotated and Classified Bibliography of English Literature Pertaining to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Atla Bibliography Series, Scarecrow Pr (1984), ISBN 978-0-8108-1710-4.
詞典- Dillmann, August, Lexicon linguæ Æthiopicæ cum indice Latino, Lipsiae 1865.- Leslau, Wolf, Comparative Dictionary of Geez (Classical Ethiopic): Geez-English, English-Geez, with an Index of the Semitic Roots, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1987. ISBN 978-3-447-02592-8.- idem, Concise Dictionary of Ge`ez (Classical Ethiopic), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1989. ISBN 978-3-447-02873-8.- Ludolf, Hiob, Lexicon Aethiopico-Latinum, Ed. by J. M. Wansleben, London 1661.- Wemmers, J., Lexicon Aethiopicum, Rome 1638.

**參閲**
Ge'ez Braille
*吉茲字母- 阿克蘇姆帝國- 衣索比亞曆
*Ethiopian chant(Zema/Ethiopian liturgical chant)
*Languages of Eritrea
*Eritrean literature
*Giyorgis of Segla(Giyorgis of Gesecha/Abba Giyorgis)
*Coptic music

**外部連結**
 A blog on Classical Ethiopic (Ge'ez)date=20160528164128 - J. M.Harden, An Introduction to Ethiopic Christian Literature (1926)- Unicode Chartdate=20160417080104 - Senamirmir Projects:  Free Ethiopic Font (Win32, MacOS, Linux) date=20210211204231 - The Bible in Ge'ez date=20201217065324 - Researcher identifies second-oldest Ethiopian manuscript in existence in HMML’s archives date=20110513051242 , Walta Information Center (10 December 2010)- LIBRARY OF ETHIOPIAN TEXTS- Äthiopische Texte- Ethiopic Character Entry date=20201204081045  by Dr. Aberra Molla ዶ/ር ኣበራ ሞላ- Collection of Ge'ez proverbs- Collection of Ge'ez qine