Ethiopic or Ge’ez (ግዕዝ) Alphabet

and transliteration to Latin & International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

Ge’ez (the script) is a script that originated as an abjad (consonant-only alphabet) and – though it is now used for writing several languages in Eritrea and Ethiopia, including the closely related languages of Tigre, Tigrinya and Amharic – it was originally used to write it’s namesake language, ልሳነ ግዕዝ, which currently survives only as the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church.

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Examples in American English to the pronunciations of the 7 orders of the በ syllabary group:

1. በ as in the first syllable of the word banana (bə-ˈna-nə); 2. ቡ as in the English word boo (ˈbü); 3. ቢ as in the English word bee (ˈbē); 4. ባ as in the first syllable of the word body (ˈbä-dē); 5. ቤ as in the first syllable of the word baby (ˈbā-bē); 6. ብ as in the phoneme of the second letter of the English alphabet – b (ˈb); and 7. ቦ as in the first syllable of the word bossy – (ˈbȯ-sē).

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