Definition of Ethiopian language

1. Noun. The dominant and official language of Ethiopia; a Semitic language much influenced by the Cushitic language with which Amhara have been in close contact.

Exact synonyms: Amharic
Generic synonyms: Semitic
Derivative terms: Amharic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ethiopian Language

Ethel Waters
Ethelbert
Ethelred
Ethelred I
Ethelred II
Ethelred the Unready
Ether
Ethernet
Ethernets
Ethical Decalogue
Ethiop
Ethiopia
Ethiopian
Ethiopian Sign Language
Ethiopian banana
Ethiopian language
Ethiopian monetary unit
Ethiopian wolf
Ethiopians
Ethiopic
Ethiops
Ethniu
Ethocaine
Ethrane
Ethril
Etienne-Louis Arthur Fallot
Etna
Etnean
Eton
Eton College

Literary usage of Ethiopian language

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1838)
"Gesenius calculates that about one-third of the root» ai'd primitive words of the ethiopian language exists а!чо ,n Arabic ; and a considerable portion of ..."

2. The Sacred City of the Ethiopians: Being a Record of Travel and Research in by James Theodore Bent, David Heinrich Müller, John George Garson (1896)
"1 and 2 from Aksum, place us in a position to observe the early development of the ethiopian language before the reform in writing and the introduction of ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The literature of the ethiopian language, like that of Armenian, is almost exclusively Christian, and, indeed, with comparatively slight exceptions, ..."

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