तिग्राय-तिग्रीन्या लोग
Also known as Tigrayans, Tigrayan
The Tigrayan people ( or ትግራዎት, Tigrawot) are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group indigenous to the Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia. They speak Tigrinya, an Afroasiatic language belonging to the North Ethio-Semitic language branch, and written in the Geʽez script serves as the main and one of the five official languages of Ethiopia. Tigrinya is also the main language of the Tigrinya people in central Eritrea, who share ethnic, linguistic, and religious ties with Tigrayans.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Tigrayans
- Ethnic group.native_name
- ትግራይ(Tigray)30px
- Ethnic group.image
- Ethiopie-Battage du teff (9).jpg
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- A Tigrayan man during the threshing of teff (Eragrostis tef) near Samre
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 4,483,776
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 60,000
- Ethnic group.pop3
- 22,000
- Ethnic group.pop4
- 2,155
- Ethnic group.languages
- Tigrinya
- Ethnic group.religions
- Overwhelming Majority: 11px Oriental Orthodox Christianity ~94.6% Minority: 11px Catholicism ~0.4% 19px Sunni Islam 5%
- Ethnic group.related
- Habesha (Tigrinya, Amhara) • Tigre • Argobba • Beta Israel • Irob • Kunama • Agaw • Gurage • Harari • Zay • other a The word "Orthodoxy" here refers to Oriental Orthodoxy, not to be confused with Eastern Orthodoxy. All Habesha Orthodox Churches (EOTC, EriOTC and TOTC) are part of the Oriental Orthodox communion.