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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.
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] The remaining residents primarily speak other languages from the Afroasiatic family, Nilo-Saharan languages or Indo-European languages.
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^"Africa :: Eritrea — The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency". www.cia.gov. Archived from the original on June 12, 2007.
^"Eritrea". Ethnologue. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
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