Marwa Ibrahim

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect that Geez literature had on originating Amharic literature and developing it. The Amharic language emerged as the principal successor tongue and the daughter language of Classical  Ethiopic.  The impact of Geez literature is evident in a lot of Amharic literature works. The bases of Amharic literature is mainly derived from the moral, religious, philosophical tradition already well established in Ge’ez literature. This can be proved through scrutinizing the content and form of these texts.

This research has various aspects as it deals with various literary works of  Amharic literature. The research divides these works to: religion literature works, history literature works, romance literature works, philosophy literature works , astronomer literature works, drama literature works, and, finally, poetry literature works. It is vivid that these works are diverse and reflect valuable data as they shed light on the important effects of Geez literature in establishing Amharic Literature and its multiple literature forms.