(Jon of the Clue Crew stands next to a monitor.) Kufic, named for the city of Kufa and often used for religious texts, is an ancient style of writing this most widely spoken Semitic language
More specifically, it is 
part of the Northwest Semitic group, which also ... Neo-Aramaic languages are 
spoken today as a first language by many scattered and usually small and 
isolated... [DOC] [TLE] Tigrinya language - Wikipedia [PAR] Tigrinya, often written as Tigrigna /trinj/ ( Tigri) is a member of 
the Ethiopian Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages.