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Drawing of the Virgin Mary 'with her beloved son,' from a Ge'ez manuscript copy of Weddasé Māryām, circa 1875.

The Ge'ez language is classified as a South Semitic language. It evolved from an earlier proto-Ethio-Semitic ancestor used to write royal inscriptions of the kingdom of in Epigraphic South Arabian. The Ge'ez language is no longer universally thought of, as previously assumed, to be an offshoot of Sabaean or Old South Arabian, and there is some linguistic (though not written) evidence of Semitic languages being spoken in Eritrea and Ethiopia since approximately 2000 BC. However, the Ge'ez script later replaced Epigraphic South Arabian in the Kingdom of Aksum (Epigraphic South Arabian letters were used for a few inscriptions into the 8th century, though not any South Arabian language since ). Early inscriptions in Ge'ez and Ge'ez script have been dated to as early as the 5th century BC, and in a sort of proto-Ge'ez written in ESA since the 8th century BC. Ge'ez literature properly begins with the Christianization of Ethiopia (and the civilization of Axum) in the 4th century, during the reign of Ezana of Axum.

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A blog on Classical Ethiopic (Ge'ez) A blog on Classical Ethiopic (Ge'ez) www.classicalethiopic.blogspot.com - Web

J. M.Harden, An Introduction to Ethiopic Christian... J. M.Harden, An Introduction to Ethiopic Christian Literature (1926) www.tertullian.org/fathers/harden_ethiopic_literature.htm - Web

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The Bible in Ge'ez The Bible in Ge'ez www.ranhacohen.info/Biblia.html - Web

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Researcher identifies second-oldest Ethiopian manu... Researcher identifies second-oldest Ethiopian manuscript in existence in HMML’s archives www.waltainfo.com/.../index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24677&Itemid=52 - Web

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