Language/Tigrinya
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Facts about Tigrinya
- 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
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.
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