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gptkbp:instanceOf
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language family
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gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
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Ethiopic
Ethio-Semitic
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gptkbp:ancestry
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gptkb:Ge'ez
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gptkbp:class
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gptkb:Afroasiatic_languages
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gptkbp:distinctiveFeature
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use of Ge'ez script
subject–object–verb word order (in some languages)
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gptkbp:firstAttested
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1st millennium BCE
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gptkbp:hasDialects
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Yes
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gptkbp:historicalName
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gptkb:Ge'ez
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Ethiopian Semitic
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gptkbp:ISO639-3
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sem-eth
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gptkbp:languageStatus
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Amharic is official language of Ethiopia
Ge'ez is liturgical language
Tigrinya is official language of Eritrea
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gptkbp:linguisticBranchOf
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gptkb:South_Semitic_languages
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gptkbp:linguisticFeature
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emphatic consonants
root-and-pattern morphology
use of prefixes and suffixes for verb conjugation
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gptkbp:mainLanguage
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gptkb:Tigre
gptkb:Amharic
gptkb:Ge'ez
gptkb:Argobba
gptkb:Gurage_languages
gptkb:Harari
Tigrinya
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gptkbp:mainlySpokenIn
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gptkb:Eritrea
gptkb:Ethiopia
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gptkbp:modernUse
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gptkb:Tigre
gptkb:Amharic
gptkb:Argobba
gptkb:Gurage_languages
gptkb:Harari
Tigrinya
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gptkbp:notableLanguage
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gptkb:Tigre
gptkb:Amharic
gptkb:Ge'ez
gptkb:Argobba
gptkb:Gurage_languages
gptkb:Harari
Tigrinya
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gptkbp:numberOfSpeakers
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over 35 million
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gptkbp:region
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gptkb:Horn_of_Africa
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gptkbp:relatedTo
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gptkb:South_Arabian_languages
Central Semitic languages
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gptkbp:subfamily
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gptkb:Semitic_languages
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gptkbp:writingSystem
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gptkb:Ge'ez_script
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Gurage_languages
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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7
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