Editing Abugida (section)

==Etymology==
In several languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea, ''abugida'' traditionally meant letters of the Ethiopic or [[Geʽez script]] in which many of these languages are written. The Geʽez script is one of several segmental writing systems in the world, others include [[Brahmic script|Indic/Brahmic scripts]] and [[Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics]]. The word abugida is derived from the four letters, ''{{'}}ä, bu, gi,'' and ''da'', in much the same way that ''[[abecedary]]'' is derived from Latin letters ''a be ce de'', ''[[abjad]]'' is derived from the [[Arabic]] ''a b j d'', and ''[[alphabet]]'' is derived from the names of the two first letters in the [[Greek alphabet]], ''alpha'' and ''beta''. ''Abugida'' as a term in linguistics was proposed by [[Peter T. Daniels]] in his 1990 [[Linguistic typology|typology]] of [[writing system]]s.<ref name="Daniels">{{cite journal|jstor=602899|doi=10.2307/602899|title=Fundamentals of Grammatology|first=Peter T.|last=Daniels|date=Oct–Dec 1990|volume=119|issue=4|pages=727–731 |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society}}</ref>