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What (who) is Tigrinya - definition
SEMITIC LANGUAGE SPOKEN IN ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA
Tigrinyan language; Tigrinya; Tigrigna; Tigrignan language; Tigrigna language; Tigrinia; Tigrinya (language); Tigrinian; ትግርኛ; ISO 639:tir; ISO 639:ti; Tigrayan language; Tigrinya-language; Tigrinya script; Tigriña; Tigray language; History of the Tigrinya language
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Tigrinya
[t?'gri:nj?]
¦ noun a Semitic language spoken in Tigray. Compare with Tigre.
Origin
the name in Tigrinya.
Tigrayan-Tigrinya people
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Tigray-Tigrinya people; Tigrayan-Tigrinya people (disambiguation); Tigray-Tigrinya people (disambiguation)
Tigrayan-Tigrinya people or Tigray-Tigrinya people most often refers to two closely linked but different ethnographic groups of Ethiopia and Eritrea who traditionally speak the Tigrinya language:
Tigrinya grammar
GRAMMAR OF THE TIGRINYA LANGUAGE
This article describes the grammar of Tigrinya, a South Semitic language which is spoken primarily in Eritrea and Ethiopia, and is written in Ge'ez script.
Wikipedia
Tigrinya language
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Tigrinya (ትግርኛ; also spelled Tigrigna) is an Ethio-Semitic language commonly spoken in Eritrea and in northern Ethiopia's Tigray Region by the Tigrinya and Tigrayan peoples. It is also spoken by the global diaspora of these regions.
Examples of use of Tigrinya
1. I‘d learned a few stumbling words of thanks in Tigrinya, which resulted in a look of disbelief, then a huge tattooed smile, from the waitress.
2. The encampments of the Saho gave way to the farming villages of the Tigrinya with their white shawls and plaited hair.
3. The Tigrinya are Christian (many of the women have crucifixes tattooed on their foreheads) which meant the number of roadside shrines began to increase÷ Tadesse continued to dispense a shower of coins and we continued to stick to the road.
4. The sophisticated ladies of the capital, wearing high heels and the latest fashions, rub shoulders with Tigrinya women from the countryside in their white shawls, Bilen women with their bright robes, tribal markings and gold nose rings, and the odd tourist (left feeling decidedly scruffy). Old war comrades greet each other with shoulder embraces, passers–by kiss the hands of the priests on the steps of the cathedral, and crammed cafes and pizza parlours overflow onto the pavements.