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Coloured linguistic map of Eritrea (Language names are in French, and so are spelled slightly differently) The languages spoken in Eritrea are Tigrinya, Tigre, and Dahlik (formerly considered a dialect of Tigre). Together, they are spoken by around 70% of local residents: Tigrinya, spoken as a first language by the Tigrinya people. As of 2006 ...
Pages in category "Languages of Eritrea" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Eritrea's population comprises nine recognized ethnic groups, most of whom speak languages from the Ethiopian Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. [5] The East African Semitic languages spoken in Eritrea are Tigre , Tigrinya , and the newly recognized Dahlik .
Tigrinya is the most widely spoken language in Eritrea (see Demographics of Eritrea), and the fourth most spoken language in Ethiopia after Amharic, Oromo, and Somali. It is also spoken by large immigrant communities around the world, in countries including Sudan , Saudi Arabia , Israel, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom ...
Ethio-Semitic (also Ethiopian Semitic, Ethiosemitic, Ethiopic or Abyssinian [2]) is a family of languages spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Sudan. [1] They form the western branch of the South Semitic languages, itself a sub-branch of Semitic, part of the Afroasiatic language family.
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Eritrea: 15 2 17 0.24 5,788,600 526,236 194,000
Western Circassian language. Official language in: Adygea, Russia; Spoken also in: Turkey, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Germany, United States, Netherlands etc. Afade – afaë Spoken in: Cameroon and Nigeria; Afar – Qafár af National language in: Eritrea; Afrihili – El-Afrihili Proposed lingua franca of Africa; Afrikaans – Afrikaans
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...