symbols instead of Ethiopic characters. Tigrinya (ትግርኛ, Təgrəñña; also spelled Tigrigna) is an Ethio-Semitic language commonly spoken in Eritrea and in northern...
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ethnic group native to Eritrea. They speak the Tigrinya language. There also exists a sizable Tigrinya community in the diaspora. One view believes that...
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Tigrayans (redirect from Tigrinya Tigrayan people)
Tigrayans (Tigrinya: ተጋሩ) are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group indigenous to the Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia. They speak the Tigrinya language, an Afroasiatic...
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Tigrinya may refer to: Tigrinya language, an Afroasiatic language Tigrinya people, an ethnic group of Eritrea Tigray (disambiguation) Tigrayan-Tigrinya...
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groups of Ethiopia and Eritrea who traditionally speak the Tigrinya language: Tigrayans Tigrinya people This article includes a list of related items that...
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and Tigrinya, spoken by the Tigrayans. Together, these four groups make up about three-quarters of Ethiopia's population. Other Afroasiatic languages with...
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Ethiopic characters. This article describes the grammar of Tigrinya, a South Semitic language which is spoken primarily in Eritrea and Ethiopia, and is...
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Eritrea (category Articles containing Tigrinya-language text)
its own language. The most widely spoken language is Tigrinya, the others being Tigre, Saho, Kunama, Nara, Afar, Beja, Bilen and Arabic. Tigrinya, Arabic...
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The Saho language (Tigrinya: ሳሆኛ/ቋንቋ ሳሆ) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Eritrea, Sudan and Ethiopia. It belongs to the family's Cushitic branch...
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a bunch and wear it on their backs or as a skirt. Ashenda, in the Tigrinya language, is a tall green grass that grows on river banks. Girls often wear...
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Habesha peoples (category Articles containing Tigrinya-language text)
Habesha peoples (Ge'ez: ሐበሠተ; Amharic: ሐበሻ; Tigrinya: ሓበሻ; commonly used exonym: Abyssinians) is an ethnic or pan-ethnic identifier that has been historically...
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Ethiopia (category Articles containing Tigrinya-language text)
the language of primary school instruction, but has been replaced in many areas by regional languages such as Oromo, Somali or Tigrinya. All languages enjoy...
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use the Tigrinya language as a working language and Arabic language as a non-indigenous working language within Eritrea. Niger–Congo languages and Nilo-Saharan...
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Hamid Idris Awate (category Articles containing Tigrinya-language text)
Beside his fluency in Arabic, Tigre, Tigrinya, Nara, Hedareb, and Kunama, Hamid learned the Italian language very well within a short period of time...
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Religion in Eritrea (category Articles containing Tigrinya-language text)
translated the Bible from Ge'ez language only understood by higher clergymen, into the Tigrinya language and other local languages and their main goal was to...
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Roselle (plant) (category Articles with Tigrinya-language sources (ti))
roselle is called kärkädē (ከርከዴ) in Amharic and Tigrinya, while in Swahili, one of the official languages of the East African Community, it is named choya...
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Tigray People's Liberation Front (category CS1 Tigrinya-language sources (ti))
The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF; Tigrinya: ህዝባዊ ወያነ ሓርነት ትግራይ, lit. 'Popular Struggle for the Freedom of Tigray'), also known as the Tigrayan...
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Isaias Afwerki (category CS1 Tigrinya-language sources (ti))
Isaias Afwerki (Tigrinya: ኢሳይያስ ኣፍወርቂ, pronounced [isajas afwɐrkʼi] ; born 2 February 1946) is an Eritrean politician and partisan who has been the first...
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Coffee ceremony of Ethiopia and Eritrea (category Articles containing Tigrinya-language text)
grounds are brewed three times: the first round of coffee is called awel in Tigrinya, the second kale'i and the third baraka ('to be blessed'). In Amharic the...
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Ethiopian Christmas (category Articles containing Tigrinya-language text)
Ethiopian Christmas (Amharic: ገና; Oromo: Ayaana; Tigrinya: ልደት) is a holiday celebrated by the Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox churches, as well...
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Palatal hook (category Articles containing Tigrinya-language text)
This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The palatal hook (◌̡)...
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Wat (food) (category Articles containing Tigrinya-language text)
Wat or wet (Amharic: ወጥ, IPA: [wətʼ]) or ito (Oromo: Ittoo) or tsebhi (Tigrinya: ጸብሒ, IPA: [sʼɐbħi]) is an Ethiopian and Eritrean stew that may be prepared...
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Injera (category Articles containing Tigrinya-language text)
Injera (Amharic: እንጀራ, romanized: ənǧära, [ɨndʒəra]; Tigrinya: ጣይታ, romanized: ṭayta; Oromo: budeena) is a sour fermented pancake-like flatbread with a...
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Ethiopian calendar (category Articles containing Tigrinya-language text)
calendar (Amharic: ዓውደ ወር; Ge'ez: ዓዉደ ወርሕ; Tigrinya: ዓዉደ ኣዋርሕ), or Ge'ez calendar (Ge'ez: ዓዉደ ወርሕ; Tigrinya: ዓዉደ ኣዋርሕ; Amharic: የኢትዮጲያ ዘመን ኣቆጣጠር) is the...
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Berbere (category Articles containing Tigrinya-language text)
Berbere (Amharic: በርበሬ bärbäre, Tigrinya: በርበረ bärbärä) is a spice mixture whose constituent elements usually include chili peppers, coriander, garlic...
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Tigrayan Orthodox Tewahedo Church (category Articles containing Tigrinya-language text)
normally given in the local Tigrinya language. Geʽez is currently being replaced by Tigrinya as the principal language for church services. The Tewahedo...
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Hyrax (category Articles containing Tigrinya-language text)
genera: Arabic: وَبْر (wabr) Gikuyu: Gitori Hebrew: שָּׁפָן (shafán) Tigrinya: ጊሐ (gihè) References are made to hyraxes in the Hebrew Bible (Leviticus...
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P'ent'ay (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
P'ent'ay (from Ge'ez: ጴንጤ P̣enṭe) is an originally Amharic–Tigrinya language term for Pentecostal Christians. Today, the term refers to all Evangelical...
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Caron (category Articles containing Tigrinya-language text)
languages to indicate a change of the related letter's pronunciation. The symbol is common in the Baltic, Slavic, Finnic, Samic and Berber languages....
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the most widely spoken language of Ethiopia and second-most widely spoken Semitic language in the world after Arabic. Tigrinya has 7 million speakers...
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