Tigré

E407334

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

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tigré canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language ⓘ
Semitic language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
belongsToGroup North Ethiosemitic languages ⓘ
branch Ethiopic Semitic ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Geʽez ⓘ
Tigrinya ⓘ
country Eritrea ⓘ
Sudan ⓘ
ethnicGroupAssociated Tigre people ⓘ
family Afroasiatic ⓘ
geographicDistribution eastern Sudan ⓘ
northern Eritrea ⓘ
western Eritrea ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Tigre ⓘ
hasAlternativeSpelling Tigre ⓘ
hasAncestor Geʽez ⓘ
hasDialects Barka dialect ⓘ
Mansaʽ dialect ⓘ
Semhar dialect ⓘ
hasMorphology root-and-pattern morphology ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants ⓘ
pharyngeal consonants ⓘ
tri-consonantal roots ⓘ
ISO639-3Code tig ⓘ
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Semitic languages ⓘ
linguisticTypology fusional language ⓘ
primaryCountryOfUse Eritrea ⓘ
primarySpeakers Tigre people ⓘ
region Horn of Africa ⓘ
scriptType abugida ⓘ
sharesFeatureWith other Ethiosemitic languages ⓘ
spokenByMinority Sudan ⓘ
spokenIn Eritrea ⓘ
Sudan ⓘ
subfamily Semitic ⓘ
usedAs vernacular language in Eritrea ⓘ
usedByReligion Christian communities ⓘ
Muslim communities ⓘ
usedInDomain local administration in Eritrea ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ
wordOrder SOV ⓘ
writingSystem Geʽez script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Tigre → hasNativeName → Tigré ⓘ