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About Tigrinya
Tigrinya (also spelt Tigrigna) is spoken in Ethiopia as an official working language and in Eritrea as the national language. It’s also spoken in countries like Israel, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia. Closely related to Amharic and Tigre, it's part of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.
Tigrinya is written in the Ge’ez script, where each symbol represents a consonant-vowel combination.
Where is it Spoken?
Countries: Ethiopia, Eritrea
Speakers: ~9,000,000
Language Family: Afro-Asiatic → Semitic → Ethiopic
Sample Phrases
እወ (Ewe) – Yes
ኣይ (Aye) – No
የእቲ ስምካ? (Yeti simka?) – What is your name?
ኣመሰግናለይ (Amesegenalehu) – Thank you
Fun Facts about Tigrinya
- Tigrinya borrows words like 'pasta' and 'makina' (car) from Italian, and 'komputer' and 'radio' from English.
- The language is phonetic — you read it as you write it.
- In Ge’ez script, a full stop is written as ። and a comma as ፣.
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