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Geʽez script, an Uncommon card
Geʽez is an abugida used to write several Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 68
- Power
- 144
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Power 144 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Geʽez script quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Geʽez script card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Under the ______ Standard and ISO 15924, it is defined as Ge'ez text.
Answer
Unicode. Under the Unicode Standard and ISO 15924, it is defined as Ge'ez text. From the Geʽez script article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Bus rapid transit. Bus rapid transit 83 · Tiki Barber 79 · Geʽez script 76 · Confectionery 72 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It originated as an abjad and was first used to write the Geʽez language, now the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Eritrean Catholic Church, the Ethiopian Catholic Church, and Haymanot Judaism of the Beta Israel Jewish community in Ethiopia.
- In the languages Amharic and Tigrinya, the script is often called fidäl, meaning "script" or "letter".
- Under the Unicode Standard and ISO 15924, it is defined as Ge'ez text.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Geʽez script article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 68: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Geʽez script
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Geʽez script (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : M. Adiputra, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
