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Tigrayans ( Tigrinya: ተጋሩ) are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group indigenous to the Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia. [5] [6] [7] They speak the Tigrinya language, an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Ethiopian Semitic branch. The daily life of Tigrayans is highly influenced by religious concepts. For example, the Christian Orthodox ...
Book of Axum. The Book of Axum [1] ( Ge'ez መጽሐፈ ፡ አክሱም maṣḥafa aksūm, Amharic: meṣhafe aksūm, Tigrinya: meṣḥafe aksūm, Latin: Liber Axumae) is the name accepted [2] since the time of James Bruce [3] in the latter part of the 18th century CE for a collection of documents from Saint Mary's Cathedral of Axum ...
The Geʽez script has been adapted to write other languages, mostly Ethiosemitic, particularly Amharic in Ethiopia, and Tigrinya in both Eritrea and Ethiopia. It has also been used to write Sebat Bet and other Gurage languages and at least 20 other languages of Ethiopia. In Eritrea it has traditionally been used for Tigre and just recently for ...
Tigrinya notices at an Eritrean Orthodox Church, Schiebroek, Rotterdam. Tigrinya ( ትግርኛ, Təgrəñña; also spelled Tigrigna) is an Ethio-Semitic language commonly spoken in Eritrea and in northern Ethiopia 's Tigray Region by the Tigrinya and Tigrayan peoples. [ 2] It is also spoken by the global diaspora of these regions.
After declaration of autocephaly of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church was recognized by the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria in 1994, the newly established patriarchal seat of Eritrea remained vacant until 1999 when Philipos was elected Abune Phillipos and the first patriarch of Eritrea (1999–2001). He was succeeded by Abune Yacob in ...
Tigre ( ትግረ, also known as Tigré ትግሬ; tigrē, or by its Eritrean autonym Tigrayit ትግራይት) is an Ethiopian Semitic language spoken in the Horn of Africa, primarily by the Tigre people of Eritrea. [3] Along with Tigrinya, it is believed to be the most closely related living language to Ge'ez, which is still in use as the ...
In languages that use it, such as Amharic and Tigrinya, the script is called Fidäl, which means script or alphabet. Geʽez is read from left to right. The Geʽez script has been adapted to write other languages, usually ones that are also Semitic. The most widespread use is for Amharic in Ethiopia and Tigrinya in Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Berhan Yekun ( Tigrinya: ብርሃን ይኹን, "Let there be Light!") was an early Tigrinya publication of 1912. [1] [2] Its title was borrowed from an annual Swedish Evangelical Mission periodical Varde Ljus! (Swedish for "Let there be Light!"), which was distributed for almost 70 years, beginning in 1893. [3] Its subtitle was given as ...