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Tigrayan-Tigrinya people or Tigray-Tigrinya people most often refers to two closely linked but different ethnographic groups of Ethiopia and Eritrea who traditionally speak the Tigrinya language: Tigrayans; Tigrinya people
In Ethiopia, Tigrinya is the fourth most spoken language. Several Tigrinya dialects, which differ phonetically, lexically, and grammatically from place to place, are more broadly classified as Eritrean Tigrinya or Tigray (Ethiopian) dialects. [24] No dialect appears to be accepted as a standard.
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 ...
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 ...
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 Eritrean government uses the Ge'ez writing system (an abugida ) to publish documents in the Tigre language.
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 .
Habesha peoples (Ge'ez: ሐበሠተ; Amharic: ሐበሻ; Tigrinya: ሓበሻ; commonly used exonym: Abyssinians) is an ethnic or pan-ethnic identifier that has been historically employed to refer to Semitic-speaking and predominantly Oriental Orthodox Christian peoples found in the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea between Asmara and Addis Ababa (i.e. the modern-day Amhara, Tigrayan, Tigrinya ...
Tigrinya is a North Ethiopic language. It is the most widely spoken language in Eritrea, and the fourth most spoken language in Ethiopia after Amharic. Tigrinya dialects differ phonetically, lexically, and grammatically. [9]