Today Ge'ez remains the main language used in the worship services of the Ethiopian (and Eritrean) Orthodox Church, though Amharic (the main lingua franca of modern Ethiopia) has also been introduced in a few churches. The Ge'ez writing system, (or 'Fidel' as it is known in Ethiopia), forms the basis for most scripts used for writing the various languages of Ethiopia.
Ge'ez is also still in use by the Beta IsraelJewish community of Ethiopia for their scriptures and liturgy.
The language has been assigned the ISO 639 code gez and the SIL code GEE.