 The script is used today in Ethiopia and Eritrea for Amharic, Tigrinya, and several other languages.It is sometimes called "Ethiopic", and is known in Ethiopia as the "fidel" or "abugida" (the actual origin of the 21st century linguistic term "abugida" applied to Brahmic scripts of India).Ge'ez or Ethiopic has been computerized and assigned Unicode 3.0 codepoints between U+1200 and U+137F (decimal 4608–4991), containing the basic syllable signs for Ge'ez, Amharic, and Tigrinya, punctuation and numerals.