Tigre

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

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tigre canonical 30

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Semitic language
language
closelyRelatedTo Amharic
Geʽez
Tigrinya
countryOfficialStatus recognized minority language in Eritrea
ethnicGroupOfSpeakers Tigre people
glottocode tigr1271
hasDialects Barka dialect
Habab dialect
Mansaʽ dialect
Semhar dialect
Senhit dialect
hasISO6391Code none
hasISO6392Code tig
hasISO6393Code tig
hasLinguisticAncestor Geʽez
hasMorphologicalFeature root-and-pattern morphology
hasMorphologicalType fusional
hasNativeName Tigré
ትግረ
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
pharyngeal consonants
hasWordOrder SOV
isDistinctFrom Tigray region
surface form: Tigray Region

Tigrinya
Tigrinya language
languageBranch Semitic
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
surface form: Afroasiatic
languageGroup Ethiopic
languageSubbranch South Semitic languages
surface form: South Semitic
primaryCountry Eritrea
region Anseba Region
Gash-Barka Region
Kassala
surface form: Kassala State

Red Sea Region
scriptType abugida
spokenBy Christian communities
Muslim communities
spokenIn Eritrea
Sudan
subclassOf Eritrean language
Ethiopic Semitic language
usedFor local media
oral communication
religious texts
writingSystem Geʽez script

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Referenced by (30)

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

Ge'ez ancestorOf Tigre
Ge'ez writingSystemUsedBy Tigre
Geez influenced Tigre
subject surface form: Geʽez
Geez writingSystemUsedFor Tigre
subject surface form: Geʽez
Gash‑Barka hasEthnicGroup Tigre
subject surface form: Gash-Barka
Gash‑Barka languageUsed Tigre
subject surface form: Gash-Barka
Anseba hasLanguage Tigre
Nara neighboringLanguages Tigre
Geʽez ancestorOf Tigre
northern Eritrea languageUsed Tigre
subject surface form: Northern Eritrea
Keren languageSpoken Tigre
Debub Region languageUsed Tigre
Adi Keyh hasLanguage Tigre
Adi Quala languageSpoken Tigre
western Eritrea languageSpoken Tigre
subject surface form: Western Eritrea
Tigré hasAlternativeName Tigre