1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
The employment of the Geez or Ethiopic language for literary >urposes appears to have begun no long lime before the introducion of Christianity into Abyssinia, and its pagan period is epresented by two Axumite inscriptions (published by D. H. Vluller in J. T. Bent's Sacral City of the Ethiopians, 1893), and in inscription at Matara (published by C. C. Rossini, Rendiconti Accad. Lincei, 1896). As a literary language it survived its use as a vernacular, but it is unknown at what time it ceased to jc the latter. In Si…
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- Vol. 9, pp. 847-849