Key facts
- Native to
- Eritrea , Sudan
- Region
- Anseba , Gash-Barka , Northern Red Sea , Red Sea State
- Ethnicity
- Tigre
- Native speakers
- 1 million (2022–2024)
- Language family
- Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic South Semitic Ethiopic North Tigre
- Dialects
- Mansa (Mensa), Habab, Beni-Amir, Semhar, Algeden, Senhit (Ad-Tekleis, Ad-Temariam, Bet-Juk, Marya Kayah)
- Writing system
- Geʽez script (Tigre abugida), Arabic script
- Recognised minority language in
- Eritrea , Sudan
- Iso 639 2
- tig
- Iso 639 3
- tig
- Glottolog
- tigr1270
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Ethiopian Semitic
- Country
- Sudan
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- topic's main category
- Category:Tigre language
- writing system
- Geʽez script
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 800000
- linguistic typology
- subject–object–verb
- indigenous to
- Kassala
- P10369
- apple
- different from
- Tigrinya
- native label
- ትግሬ
- has phoneme
- close-mid back rounded vowel
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