Tigre language

E760038

Semitic language

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

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Tigre language canonical	11

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Semitic language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Amharic language NERFINISHED ⓘ Geʽez language ⓘ Tigrinya language NERFINISHED ⓘ
continent	Africa ⓘ
country	Eritrea NERFINISHED ⓘ Sudan ⓘ
ethnologueEntry	Tigre NERFINISHED ⓘ
family	Afroasiatic NERFINISHED ⓘ
glottologCode	tigr1271 ⓘ
glottologName	Tigre NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasDialect	Barka dialect ⓘ Habab dialect ⓘ Mansa dialect ⓘ Saho-Tigre dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ Semhar dialect ⓘ Senhit dialect ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature	broken plurals ⓘ root-and-pattern morphology ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	emphatic consonants ⓘ guttural consonants ⓘ pharyngeal consonants ⓘ
hasSyntacticFeature	basic word order VSO ⓘ prepositions ⓘ
iso639-1Code	ti ⓘ
iso639-2Code	tig ⓘ
iso639-3Code	tig ⓘ
languageBranch	Semitic ⓘ
languageFamily	Afroasiatic ⓘ
macrolanguage	Tigré NERFINISHED ⓘ
primarySpeakers	Tigre people NERFINISHED ⓘ
region	Eritrean lowlands ⓘ Keren region NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Sea coast of Eritrea NERFINISHED ⓘ Sahel region of Eritrea ⓘ
scriptDirection	left-to-right ⓘ
spokenByEthnicGroup	Beni-Amer people NERFINISHED ⓘ Habab people NERFINISHED ⓘ Marya people NERFINISHED ⓘ Mensa people NERFINISHED ⓘ Tigre people NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn	Eritrea NERFINISHED ⓘ Sudan ⓘ
subfamily	Semitic ⓘ
subgroup	Ethiopic Semitic ⓘ North Ethiosemitic NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedFor	oral poetry ⓘ religious texts ⓘ traditional songs ⓘ
usedIn	education in Eritrea (limited) ⓘ local media in Eritrea ⓘ
writingSystem	Ethiopic script NERFINISHED ⓘ Geʽez script NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (11)

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

ትግርኛ → closelyRelatedTo → Tigre language ⓘ

Beni-Amer → language → Tigre language ⓘ

Eritrean → languageDiversityContext → Tigre language ⓘ

Bilen language → influencedBy → Tigre language ⓘ

Bilen language → hasNeighborLanguage → Tigre language ⓘ

Eritrean lowlands → hasLanguage → Tigre language ⓘ

Red Sea Region → hasLanguage → Tigre language ⓘ

Habab dialect → hasAncestralLanguage → Tigre language ⓘ

Habab dialect → hasPhonologySimilarTo → Tigre language ⓘ

Habab dialect → hasGrammarSimilarTo → Tigre language ⓘ

Saho-Afar → neighboringLanguage → Tigre language ⓘ

subject surface form: Saho language