The Kingdom of Aksum is the prehistoric African culture that created the Ge'ez writing system. Since the Ge'ez script is an abugida, each consonant has a corresponding vowel sound. The writing system was created in the fifth century BC, and it is still employed to write the Ge'ez language, which serves as the Tewahedo Ethiopian Orthodox Church's liturgical language.
The South Arabian script, which was used to write the Sabaean language, is thought to have been the ancestor of the Ge'ez script. A significant commercial force in antiquity, the Sabaeans were a people who lived in what is now Yemen. Through trade, the Aksumites were introduced to the Sabaeans, and they adopted their writing for the