Tigré

E407334

Tigré is a Semitic language spoken primarily by the Tigre people in Eritrea and parts of Sudan.

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Tigré canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Semitic language
natural language
belongsToGroup North Ethiosemitic languages
branch Ethiopic Semitic
closelyRelatedTo Geʽez
Tigrinya
country Eritrea
Sudan
ethnicGroupAssociated Tigre people
family Afroasiatic
geographicDistribution eastern Sudan
northern Eritrea
western Eritrea
hasAlternativeName Tigre
hasAlternativeSpelling Tigre
hasAncestor Geʽez
hasDialects Barka dialect
Mansaʽ dialect
Semhar dialect
hasMorphology root-and-pattern morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
pharyngeal consonants
tri-consonantal roots
ISO639-3Code tig
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
Semitic languages
linguisticTypology fusional language
primaryCountryOfUse Eritrea
primarySpeakers Tigre people
region Horn of Africa
scriptType abugida
sharesFeatureWith other Ethiosemitic languages
spokenByMinority Sudan
spokenIn Eritrea
Sudan
subfamily Semitic
usedAs vernacular language in Eritrea
usedByReligion Christian communities
Muslim communities
usedInDomain local administration in Eritrea
oral tradition
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Geʽez script

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Tigre hasNativeName Tigré