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Tigre (ትግሬ, [2] [3] Təgré [4]), also known as Tigrayit (ትግራይት), [1] is an Ethio-Semitic language spoken in the Horn of Africa, primarily by the Tigre people of Eritrea. [5] 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 ...
The Tigre are a nomadic agro-pastoralist community living in the northern, western, and coastal highlands of Eritrea (Gash-Barka, Anseba, Northern Red Sea regions of Eritrea and other regions too), as well as areas in eastern Sudan. The Tigre speak the Tigre language, which belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. They are not ...
The most widely spoken language in Sudan is Arabic, a member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, represented by the Sudanese dialect. [2] Cushitic, another major branch of Afro-Asiatic, is represented by Bedawiye (with several dialects), spoken by the largely nomadic Beja people. [2] [4] Nevertheless, some of them speak ...
Some of the Beja speak a Cushitic language called Beja and some speak Tigre, an Ethiopian Semitic language; most speak Arabic. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] In Eritrea and southeastern Sudan, many members of the Beni-Amer grouping speak Tigre.
[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.
Beni-Amer Bridal mat, Sudan Ethnographic Museum, 2022. According to Paul, ever since Amer Kunu came to power, intermarriage between Nabtab and Tigre castes were forbidden and the caste distinctions were strictly enforced. [6] This was successfully accomplished by the small elite, states Paul, through the "force of arms". [10]
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 ...
The Hedareb speak the Beja language or Tigre language as a mother tongue. [6] In addition to their variety of Beja, known as Hedareb or T’badwe, most Hedareb people also speak at least one other language, typically for a larger group Tigre, and for a small group Arabic as well.