吉茲語

吉茲語（，）或格厄茲語（, ），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.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070206102731/http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05566a.htm 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.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060211171331/http://hometown.aol.com/_ht_a/atobrukh/archaeology/matara/matara.html MAT] Matara Aksumite & Pre-Aksumite City Webpage
[http://www.dskmariam.org/artsandlitreature/litreature/pdf/aksum.pdf 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.
[http://www.addistribune.com/Archives/2003/11/14-11-03/Glimpse.htm 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.
[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=13&letter=F&search=geez 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
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*吉茲字母

• 阿克苏姆帝国
• 衣索比亞曆

*(Zema/Ethiopian liturgical chant)
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*(Giyorgis of Gesecha/Abba Giyorgis)
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外部連結
*[http://www.classicalethiopic.blogspot.com/ A blog on Classical Ethiopic (Ge'ez)]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060810221758/http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/harden_ethiopic_literature.htm J. M.Harden, An Introduction to Ethiopic Christian Literature* (1926)]
*[http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1200.pdf Unicode Chart]
*[http://www.senamirmir.com/projects/typography/typeface.html Senamirmir Projects: Free Ethiopic Font (Win32, MacOS, Linux)]
*[http://www.tau.ac.il/~hacohen/Biblia.html The Bible in Ge'ez]
*[http://www.waltainfo.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24677&Itemid=52 Researcher identifies second-oldest Ethiopian manuscript in existence in HMML’s archives] , (10 December 2010)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060219131216/http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/ethiopian/shelf_noframe.htm LIBRARY OF ETHIOPIAN TEXTS]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120810131149/http://www.uni-mainz.de/Organisationen/TLA/texte/index.html Äthiopische Texte]
*[http://freetyping.geezedit.com Ethiopic Character Entry] by Dr. Aberra Molla ዶ/ር ኣበራ ሞላ
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140222130842/http://www.good-amharic-books.com/images/PDFs/geez-prov.pdf Collection of Ge'ez proverbs]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20140222130840/http://www.good-amharic-books.com/onebook.php?bookID=636 Collection of Ge'ez qine*]