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  2. Ethiopian calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Ethiopian New Year is called Kudus Yohannes in Geʽez and Tigrinya, while in Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, it is called Enkutatash meaning "gift of jewels". [4] It occurs on 11 September in the Gregorian calendar; except for the year preceding a leap year, when it occurs on 12 September.

  3. Talk:Ethiopian calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Ethiopian calendar should be changed to "Ge'ez" calendar. I believe it would be more formal, just as the Ge'ez font is not called Ethiopian. As well, this is mainly due to the fact that since Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia and the calendar is used by the Eritrean Orthodox church, and Eritrean Orthodox christians.

  4. List of adoption dates of the Gregorian calendar by country

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    There are only four countries which have not adopted the Gregorian calendar for civil use: Ethiopia (Ethiopian calendar), Nepal (Vikram Samvat and Nepal Sambat), Iran (Solar Hijri calendar) [1] and Afghanistan (Lunar Hijri Calendar). [2] Thailand has adopted the Gregorian calendar for days and months, but uses its own era for years: the ...

  5. List of date formats by country - Wikipedia

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    English-language governmental and academic documents use DMY. Iran: Yes: Yes: No: Short format: yyyy/mm/dd [80] in Persian Calendar system ("yy/m/d" is a common alternative). Gregorian dates follow the same rules in Persian literature but tend to be written in the dd/mm/yyyy format in official English documents.

  6. Wolaitta language - Wikipedia

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    In speaking their language, the Wolaytta people use many proverbs. A large collection of them, in Ethiopian script, was published in 1987 (Ethiopian calendar) [A] by the Academy of Ethiopian Languages. [5] Fikre Alemayehu's 2012 MA thesis from Addis Ababa University provides an analysis of Wolaytta proverbs and their functions. [6]

  7. Amharic - Wikipedia

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    The language serves as the official working language of the Ethiopian federal government, and is also the official or working language of several of Ethiopia's federal regions. [9] In 2020 in Ethiopia, it had over 33.7 million mother-tongue speakers of which 31 million are ethnically Amhara, and more than 25.1 million second language speakers ...

  8. Calendar - Wikipedia

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    183 languages. Адыгэбзэ ... The Ethiopian calendar or Ethiopic calendar is the principal calendar used in Ethiopia and Eritrea, ... Calendar converter ...

  9. Date and time representation by country - Wikipedia

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    The little-endian format (day, month, year; 1 June 2022) is the most popular format worldwide, followed by the big-endian format (year, month, day; 2006 June 1). Dates may be written partly in Roman numerals (i.e. the month) [citation needed] or written out partly or completely in words in the local language.