፦ In the prologue, the distinguished scholar Manuel de Guèz, gives us some pointers on the Abyssinian Syllabary.

፦ The Abyssinian Syllabary spells out the history of Ethiopia through a series of 33 biographical vignettes of emblematic Ethiopian lives – with each life corresponding to one of the main 33 symbols of the Abyssinian Syllabary – or Abugida.

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Yves-Marie Stranger, the editor of Ethiopia through writers' eyes (Eland Books), is the compiler of these Abyssinian lives.

፦ Part historical fiction and part magic scroll, The Abyssinian Syllabary compounds tentative fact and patent fiction to breathe a new life into the characters of the Ethiopian palimpsest.

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፦ Spelling out the many lives of Victor Lazlo [ገ], Rimbaud [ዐ], King Théodore [ከ], the Monk Théodore [የ], Munziger Pasha [ወ], Alessandro Zorzi [ሰ], Arab Faquih [ሸ], Leonard Cohen [ፀ], Umm Delombera [ተ], Menfus Kiddus [ሠ] and more…

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፦ For more Aethiopica & for posters of the Abyssinian Syllabary or, Ethiopian Abugida, visit Uthiopia.com

Music (Atribution CC BY): NOW ETHIOPIA •††• THE HARP OF KING DAVID •††• a portrait of ALEMU AGA by V. Moon and & J. Kirkegaard

A prologue by Manuel de Guèz

The Abyssinian SyllabaryBy Yves-Marie StrangerNov 17, 2020