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Tigrigna
ISO 639-3: tir
Population |
3,220,000 in Ethiopia (1994 census). 2,819,755 monolinguals. Population total all countries: 5,791,710. Ethnic population: 3,284,568. |
Region |
Tigray Province. Also in Canada, Djibouti, Eritrea, Germany, Israel. |
Language map |
Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia, reference number 78
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Alternate names |
Tigray, Tigrinya |
Classification |
Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, South, Ethiopian, North |
Language use |
146,933 L2 speakers. |
Language development |
Literacy rate in L1: 1%–10%. Literacy rate in L2: 27%. Radio programs. Grammar. Bible: 1956. |
Writing system |
Ethiopic script. |
Comments |
Are called ‘Tigrai’. Christian. |
Also spoken in:
Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:
Academic Publications
ABRAHA, John; BARIAGHABER, Tesfai; BEYED, Sullus; HAMMADU, Osman; MAHMUD, Saleh; MOHAMMED, Ibrahim; TECLEMARIAM, Daniel; WEDEKIND, Charlotte; WEDEKIND, Klaus, authors. 1997. Eritrea Dialect Survey (December 1996-May 1997) Report.
ABUSHUSH, Dawd Adem; ASHKABA, John Abraha; AWED, Sulus Beyed; DAVIS, Patricia M.; GHEBREMEDHIN, Tesfai Bariagaber; HAMMADU, Osman; HOATSON, Kristen; HOATSON, Todd; IDRIS, Saleh Mahmud; MOHAMMED, Ibrahim; OKBATSION, Solomon Berhane; OSMAN ALI, Mohammed; TEKRURAY, Daniel Teclemariam; WALTER, Stephen L., authors. 2005. Eritrea national reading survey, September 2002.
UNSETH, Peter, author. 2003. "Surveying bi-consonantal reduplication in Semitic."