Habab dialect

E407335

The Habab dialect is a regional variety of the Tigre language spoken by the Habab people in parts of Eritrea.

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Label Occurrences
Habab dialect canonical 1

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Statements (25)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
variety of the Tigre language
associatedWithReligion Islam (majority of Habab people)
belongsTo Habab tribal territory
closelyRelatedTo other Tigre dialects
country Eritrea
ethnicGroup Ababda people
surface form: Habab people
hasAncestralLanguage Tigre language
hasGrammarSimilarTo Tigre language
hasPhonologySimilarTo Tigre language
ISO639-3 tig (as part of Tigre language)
languageBranch Semitic languages
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
languageOf Ababda people
surface form: Habab people
languageStatus regional dialect
languageSubbranch Ethiopic Semitic languages
partOf Tigre language dialect continuum
region northern Eritrea
spokenIn Eritrea
spokenInRegion parts of Eritrea
subclassOf Tigre language dialect
usedFor everyday communication among Habab people
usedIn oral tradition of the Habab people
writingSystem Geʽez script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tigre hasDialects Habab dialect