↑ Gragg 1997b, p. 242 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFGragg1997b (help): "Ge‘ez disappeared as a spoken language probably some time before the tenth century CE."
↑ De Lacy O'Leary, 2000 Comparative grammar of the Semitic languages. Routledge. p. 23.
1 2 Chain 1909 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFChain1909 (help): "No longer in popular use, Geʽez has always remained the language of the Church".
↑ "They read the Bible in Geez" (Leaders and Religion of the Beth Israel); "after each passage, recited in Geez, the translation is read in Kailina" (Festivals). [PER], publication date 1901–1906.
↑ Thompson, E. D. 1976. Languages of Northern Eritrea. In Bender, M. Lionel (ed.), The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia, 597–603. East Lansing, Michigan: African Studies Center, Michigan State University.