Ethiopic (Geʻez)

Ethiopic (also called Ge'ez script or Fidel) is a writing system used for several languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea, most notably Amharic, Tigrinya, and Tigre. It is an abugida in which each base character represents a consonant with an inherent vowel 'a', modified by diacritics for other vowel sounds.

Ethiopic has 33 basic consonant forms, each with 7 order variants for the 7 vowels, giving 231 primary characters plus additional symbols. The script is written left-to-right. Ge'ez (Classical Ethiopic), the ancestor of modern Ethiopic languages, is still used as a liturgical language in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.