Language/Tigrinya

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Facts about Tigrinya

Tigrinya is a Semitic language spoken in Eritrea by the Tigrinya people, and in northern Ethiopia in the Tigray region by the Tigrayan people.

It is also spoken by the global diaspora of these regions.

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• Language code (ISO 639-3): tir
• Autonyms (how to write "Tigrinya" in Tigrinya): ትግርኛ
• Other names for "Tigrinya": Habashi, Tigray, Tigrinya, Beta Israel ("Falashas")
• The Tigrinya language is spoken in: Ethiopia

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigrinya_language

Tigrinya Dictionaries

• Memhr: Tigrinya-English vocabulary

• Tigrigna-English dictionary compiled by Efrem Zecarias (2007)

• Dictionnaire tigrigna-français

• Dictionnaire élémentaire français-tigrigna-luxembourgeois: French-Tigrinya-Luxemburgish dictionary (2019) [[new.htm| • Goethe-Verlag: Tigrinya-English common phrases (+ audio)

• Defense language institute: basic vocabulary (+ audio) - civil affairs - medical

• Dictionnaire de la langue tigraï: Tigrai-French dictionary by J. Coulbeaux & Jules Schreiber (1915)

• Vocabolario italiano-tigrai: Italian-Tigrai vocabulary, by Alfonso Cimino (1904)

• Vocabulary of the Tigré language by Moritz von Beurmann & grammar by Adalbert Merx (1868)

• A comparative review of some Tigrinya and Somali proverbs by Filip Busau, in Bildhaan, an international journal of Somali studies (2019)

Sources

https://www.lexilogos.com/english/tigrinya_dictionary.htm

Free Tigrinya Lessons

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Last Lessons

How to Use Have — How to Use Be — How to say Good Bye? — Health — Express Surprise — Geography — Future Tense — Fruits — Feelings and Emotions — Education — Drinks — Clothes — Negation — Plurals — Questions — Conditional Mood — Pronouns — Adjectives — Food — Count to 10 — Animals — Days of the Week — Eritrea Timeline — How to Say Hello and Greetings — Feelings — Colors — Months of the year — Greetings — Alphabet and Pronunciation