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Tigre
ትግረ (Tigre) / ትግራይት (Tigrayit) ኻሳ (Xasa)[1]
Native to
Eritrea, Sudan[2]
Region
Anseba, Gash-Barka, Northern Red Sea, Red Sea State
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Tigre (ትግረ, also known as Tigréትግሬ; tigrē, or by its Eritrean autonym Tigrayitትግራይት) 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 liturgical language of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Tigre has a lexical similarity of 71% with Ge’ez and of 64% with Tigrinya.[2] As of 1997, Tigre was spoken by approximately 800,000 Tigre people in Eritrea.[4] The Tigre mainly inhabit western Eritrea, though they also reside in the northern highlands of Eritrea and its extension into the adjacent parts of Sudan, as well as Eritrea's Red Sea coast north of Zula. There is a small number of Tigre speakers in Sudan, as well as communities of speakers found in the diaspora.[2]
The Tigre people are not to be confused with their neighbors to the south, the Tigrinya people of Eritrea and the Tigrayans of Ethiopia, who speak Tigrinya. Tigrinya is also derived from the parent Geʽez tongue[citation needed], but is quite distinct from Tigre despite the similarity in name.
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^"Languages of Eritrea". Ethnologue. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
other symbols. Tigre (ትግረ, also known as Tigré ትግሬ; tigrē, or by its Eritrean autonym Tigrayit ትግራይት) is an Ethiopian Semitic language spoken in the Horn...
The Tigre people (Tigre: ትግረ tigre and ትግሬ tigrē) are an ethnic group indigenous to Eritrea. They mainly inhabit the lowlands and northern highlands of...
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000. Some of the Beja speak a Cushitic language called Beja and some speak Tigre, an Ethiopian Semitic language; most speak Arabic. In Eritrea and southeastern...
them speak the Semitic Tigrelanguage. Chadic, a third Afro-Asiatic branch, is represented by its most important single language, Hausa, a West African...
The main languages spoken in Eritrea are Tigrinya, Tigre, Kunama, Bilen, Nara, Saho, Afar, and Beja. The country's working languages are Tigrinya, Arabic...
Tigre, and Afar, and any mixed marriages usually result in the children learning two mother tongues. Dahalik speakers also consider their language to...
pronouns, second person pronouns, and first person inclusive verb inflections. Tigre has the greater plural only in a single word, nälät, which means a large...
Le Tigre (/lə ˈtiːɡrə/, French pronunciation: [lə tiɡʁ]; French for "The Tiger") is an American electronic rock band formed by Kathleen Hanna (of Bikini...
the Tigrelanguage was posthumously edited and published by Adalbert Merx as Vocabulary of the Tigrélanguage (1868). Vocabulary of the TigréLanguage by...
word in Tigrinya, Tigre, Amharic and Ge'ez. The Jeberti in Eritrea also speak Tigrinya. Tigrinya is the most widely spoken language in Eritrea (see Demographics...
Los Tigres del Norte (English: The Tigers of the North) are a norteño band from San Jose, California. Originally founded in the small town Rosa Morada...
fruit-dates are edible. In Eritrea its name is Akat, or Akaat in the Tigrelanguage. The thin dried brown rind is made into molasses, cakes, and sweetmeats...
El Tigre is a city of Anzoategui, a state located east of Venezuela's capital city of Caracas. Located in what is called the "Guanipa Mesa", a river (Tigre)...
herds of camels, goats and sheep. The Hedareb speak the Beja language or Tigrelanguage as a mother tongue. In addition to their variety of Beja, known...
cevicherías serve a small glass of the marinade, which is called leche de tigre or leche de pantera, as an appetizer along with the fish. According to a...
Tikar (also called Tigé, Tigré or Tikari) is a Northern Bantoid, semi-Bantu language that is spoken in Cameroon by the Tikar people, as well as by the...
Tungsten inert gas welding, or gas tungsten arc welding tig may refer to: Tigrelanguage (ISO 639 code: tig) tig (software), a browser for git version control...
Ethiopia, Tigre in Eritrea, and Tigrinya in both. Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia. Tigrinya is a working language in Eritrea. Tigre is spoken...
them as well (often referred to as the Mensaï in Eritrea). Their language is called Tigre. The Jeberti people in Eritrea trace descent from early Muslim...
Hagaz (Hagaz, Tigre: ሓጋዝ Arabic: حقاز) is a town in central Eritrea. Located in the Anseba region, it is the capital of Hagaz District. The Hagaz Agricultural...
great divisions (based arbitrarily on Language) are Tigre, Amhara, and the province of Shewa. Salt considered Tigre as the more powerful state of the three;...
Amanuel (1862–1944), the main translator of the New Testament in the Tigrelanguage, published in 1902 Bruck Dawit, Ethiopian-American audio engineer and...
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