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
linked to: Tigray region

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

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

How these facts were elicited

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