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The '''Ge'ez language''' is an ancient [[Ethiopia]]n language still used by the Ethiopian Church and the Beta Israel Jewish community of Ethiopia for their scriptures and [[liturgy]].

The word Ge'ez is also applied to the [[syllabary]] which is used to write the language. [[Amharic language|Amharic]] in [[Ethiopia]] and [[Tigrignan language|Tigrigna]] in [[Eritrea]] use modified forms of the Ge'ez syllabary. Other languages in the [[Horn of Africa]] were also historically written using Ge'ez, such as [[Oromo]] and [[Somali]], but these have generally migrated to Latin-based orthographies.

Ge'ez (or "Ethiopic") has been assigned Unicode codepoints U+1200 – U+137F (decimal 4608–4991).