| The service is long, over three hours, delivered in monotonous Amharic and an older ecclesiastical language like Latin, called Ge'ez. |
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| It has its own script of more than 200 characters, based on the ancient language Ge'ez, used now only in the Orthodox Church. |
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| The Ge'ez language used in most modern day church services derives from the Kingdom of Axum. |
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| Ge'ez is easily adapted to melody because each sign represents a syllable. |
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| It is an abugida script that was originally developed to write the Ge'ez language. |
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| She also developed a passion for old books, mainly religious texts, some illustrated and invariably written on parchment in Ge'ez. |
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| Monks of the Orthodox church in Ethiopia began to write in the liturgical language of Ge'ez. |
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| As early as 2000 BC, other Semitic speakers were living in Ethiopia and Eritrea where Ge'ez developed. |
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| In terms of writing systems, Ethiopia's principal orthography is the Ge'ez script. |
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| Ge'ez now serves as the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. |
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| The most widely known is the Ethiopian calendar, also known as the Ge'ez calendar. |
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| The Ethiopian months begin on the same days as those of the Coptic calendar, but their names are in Ge'ez. |
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| Manuscripts and magic scrolls feature an early Ethiopian language, Ge'ez, according to Laura Garrity-Arquitt of the museum. |
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| Songs feature lyrics in English and the classical Ethiopic language of Ge'ez. |
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| Employed as an abugida for several of the country's languages, it first came into usage in the 6th and 5th centuries BC as an abjad to transcribe the Semitic Ge'ez language. |
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| There are a few historical records claiming that this law code was translated into Ge'ez and entered Ethiopia around 1450 in the reign of Zara Yaqob. |
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| However, Ge'ez, the ancient Semitic language of Ethiopia, is thought to have developed independently from Sabaean, one of the South Semitic languages. |
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| Other early translations of the Bibles appeared in the Syriac dialect of Aramaic, in the Ge'ez language in Ethiopia and in Latin in Western Europe. |
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