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tigTigre  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • For other uses please see Tigre (disambiguation) Tigre (Geez ትግረ tigre or ትግሬ tigrē; sometimes written as Tigré, also known as Xasa in Sudan; Arabic الخاصية ) is a Semitic language, which, along with Tigrinya, is believed to be one of direct descendants of the extinct Geez language. (Ge'ez is still in use as the liturgical language of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church.) As of 1997, Tigré was spoken by approximately 800,000 people in Eritrea. The Tigre people are nearly all found in western Eritrea, with the remainder inhabiting the adjacent part of Sudan. In Eritrea, they inhabit the central and northern plateau and the Red Sea shores north of Zula. Traditionally, the local language of the Dahlak Archipelago, Dahlik, has been considered a dialect of Tigré, but recently one researcher has reassessed this view.

Entry terms

  • Tigre language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • tig

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • tig

ISO 639-3 code

  • tig

Notation

  • tig

In other languages

  • tigré

    French

  • Tigre

    German

  • tigre

    Italian

  • Lingua tigré
  • Portuguese

  • Língua tigré
  • tigré

    Spanish

  • Idioma tigré

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/tig

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