Tigrinya is spoken in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia and is part of the Semitic language family. It has its own unique script and is culturally significant to the Tigrayan people.
Tigrinya
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Classification
Afro-Asiatic > Semitic
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Speakers
9.5 million
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Script
Ethiopic (Ge'ez)
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Text direction
Left-to-right
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Official language
Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Other names
Tigrinia
Tigrinya
Tigrinya is a Semitic language spoken by the Tigray-Tigrinya people in the Horn of Africa in Ethiopia and Eritrea. In Ethiopia speakers of Tigrinya are called Tegaru, whereas in Eritrea they are called Tigrigna.
Tigrinya should not be confused with another Eritrean language, Tigre.
The Tigrinya language is written with Ge’ez script, previously also called Ethiopic. It is an abugida-style system where each symbol represents both the consonant and vowel sounds of a syllable.
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Interesting fact
The earliest written example of Tigrigna, spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea, is a set of local laws dating from the 13th century.
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