吉茲語（，）或格厄茲語（吉茲語：ግዕዝ，，），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。

語音學

母音 

 ä [æ]  < Proto-Semitic *a
 u [u:] < Proto-Semitic *ū
 i [i:] < Proto-Semitic *ī
 a [a:] 	< Proto-Semitic *ā
 e [e:] < Proto-Semitic *ay
 ə [ɨ] < Proto-Semitic *i, *u
 o [o:] < Proto-Semitic *aw

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 SomeCollectionOfWritings, 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
MUN 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  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  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). 
 ,  ("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

吉茲字母
 阿克苏姆帝国
 衣索比亞曆
(Zema/Ethiopian liturgical chant)

(Giyorgis of Gesecha/Abba Giyorgis)

外部連結 

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

吉茲語
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