Ethiopic is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ad ...
containing characters for writing the
Geʽez
Geez (; ' , and sometimes referred to in scholarly literature as Classical Ethiopic) is an ancient Ethiopian Semitic language. The language originates from what is now northern Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Today, Geez is used as the main liturg ...
,
Tigrinya,
Amharic,
Tigre,
Harari,
Gurage and other
Ethiosemitic languages and Central Cushitic languages or
Agaw languages.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Ethiopic block:
References
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Unicode blocks