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Tigre (also written Tigré; ትግሬ, [2] [3] təgré [4] or ትግራይት tigrayit [1]) is an Ethio-Semitic language spoken in the Horn of Africa, primarily by the Tigre people of Eritrea. [5] Along with Tigrinya , 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 Tigre language is an Afroasiatic language of the Semitic branch. Like Tigrinya, it is a member of the Ethiopian Semitic group, and is similar to ancient Ge'ez. [8] [better source needed] There is no known historically written form of the language.
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]
It is the most widely spoken language in Eritrea, ... The language known as Tigre was believed to be spoken in the region around 1000 BC. D'mt Kingdom
The Tigray Region [A] (or simply Tigray; officially the Tigray National Regional State) [B] is the northernmost regional state in Ethiopia.The Tigray Region is the homeland of the Tigrayan, Irob and Kunama people.
Tigrinya is closely related to Amharic and Tigre (in Eritrea commonly called Tigrayit), another East African Semitic language spoken by the Tigre as well as many Beja of Eritrea and Sudan. Tigrinya and Tigre, though more closely related to each other linguistically than either is to Amharic, are however not mutually intelligible.
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.
The East African Semitic languages spoken in Eritrea are Tigre, Tigrinya, and the newly recognized Dahlik. Other Afro-Asiatic languages belonging to the Cushitic branch are also widely spoken in the country. [5] The latter include Afar, Beja, Blin, and Saho.