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Tigrinya notices at an Eritrean Orthodox Church in Schiebroek, Rotterdam, Netherlands.. Tigrinya (ትግርኛ, Təgrəñña), sometimes spelled Tigrigna, is an Ethio-Semitic language commonly spoken in Eritrea and in northern Ethiopia's Tigray Region by the Tigrinya and Tigrayan peoples respectively. [3]
The main languages spoken in Eritrea are Tigrinya, Tigre, Kunama, Bilen, Nara, Saho, Afar, and Beja. The country's working languages are Tigrinya, Arabic, English, and formerly Italian. Tigrinya is the most widely spoken language in the country and had 2,540,000 native speakers out of the total population of 5,254,000 in 2006. [3]
In Tigrinya, as in other Semitic languages, the same distinctions appear in three other places within the grammar of the languages as well. Subject–verb agreement All Tigrinya verbs agree with their subjects ; that is, the person, number, and (second and third person) gender of the subject of the verb are marked by suffixes or prefixes on the ...
[3] [4] Tigrinya has 7 million speakers and is the most widely spoken language in Eritrea. [5] [6] There is a small population of Tigre speakers in Sudan, and it is the second-most spoken language in Eritrea. The Geʽez language has a literary history in its own Geʽez script going back to the first century AD.
It is believed to be the most closely related living language to Ge'ez, which is still in use as the liturgical language of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Tigre has a lexical similarity of 71% with Ge’ez and of 64% with Tigrinya. [1]
Eritrea is a multilingual country. The nation has no official language, as the Constitution establishes the "equality of all Eritrean languages". [1] Eritrea has nine national languages which are Tigrinya, Tigre, Afar, Beja, Bilen, Kunama, Nara, and Saho. Tigrinya, Arabic, and English serve as de facto working languages, with English used in ...
Their language is called Tigrinya. They are the largest ethnic group in the country, constituting about 50% of the population. [ 42 ] The predominantly Tigrinya populated urban centers in Eritrea are the capital Asmara , Mendefera , Dekemhare , Adi Keyh , Adi Quala and Senafe .
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