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Encyclopedia > Tigrinya
Tigrigna (ትግሪኛ)
Spoken in: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Israel
Region: Northern Africa
Total speakers: 5.1 million
Ranking: not in top 100
Genetic
classification:
Afro-Asiatic

 Semitic
  South
   Ethiopian
    North
     Tigrigna

Official status
Official language of: Eritrea
Regulated by: --
Language codes
ISO 639-1 ti
ISO 639-2 tir
SIL TGN


Tigrigna (or ትግሪኛ) is a Semitic language spoken in Eritrea, where it is the official language, and in parts of Ethiopia and Israel. It is written in the Geez (also called Ethiopic) script.


The speakers of this language are known as Tigrawot (plural); the singular forms are Tigraway for male and Tigraweiti for female speakers.


External links

  • Ethnologue on Tigrigna (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TGN)

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Tigrinya People Profile (2480 words)
For the Tigrinya people, the average life expectancy is around 46, compared to 76 in the U.S.A. The Tigrinya people have one doctor per 28,000 patients and one nurse per 8,393 patients.
Tigrinya is closely related to the Tigre language, spoken by numerous small people groups of diverse origins (jointly called the Tigre people), as well as many Beja people.
The "coffee ceremony" is common to the Tigrinya and the Amhara.
Tigrinya language: Information from Answers.com (1866 words)
Tigrinya should not be confused with the related Tigre language, which is spoken in the lowland regions in Eritrea to the north and west of the region where Tigrinya is spoken.
For the representation of Tigrinya sounds, this article uses a modification of a system that is common (though not universal) among linguists who work on Ethiopian Semitic languages, but it differs somewhat from the conventions of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Tigrinya nouns have plural, as well as singular, forms, though the plural is not obligatory when the linguistic or pragmatic context makes the number clear.
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