Concept information
Preferred term
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
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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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