ISO 639-3 · tirtir
Afroasiatic family
Tigrinya
ትግርኛ
Tigrinya is a language of the Ethiopian Semitic branch (Afroasiatic), spoken in Eritrea and Ethiopia. Wikidata counts 7.5 m first-language speakers (2019) and 152,000 who speak it as a second language. Wikidata describes it as “Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
tir- ISO 639-1
ti- Glottocode
tigr1271- Family
- Afroasiatic
- EGIDS
- 2 Provincial
- Centre point
- 14.00, 38.00
- Wikipedia
- 102 language editions
7.5 mfirst-language speakers
152,000second-language speakers
2countries
1scripts
4levels in the tree
2EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Tigrinya · ትግርኛ |
|---|---|
| Also called | Tigrinya language, Tigrigna, Tigrinya alphabet, Tigrinja |
| L1 speakers | 7,507,780 (2019) |
| L2 speakers | 152,000 (2019) |
| All speakers | 5,800,000 |
| Written in | Geʽez script |
| Official in | Eritrea |
Vitality
EGIDS 2 Provincial2
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Afroasiatic to Tigrinya
The branches above Tigrinya, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Eritrea
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalaraArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafemsaMalayAustronesian · 77 maarAfarAfroasiatic · 1.6 m2 · ProvincialbejBejaAfroasiatic · 1.2 m5 · DevelopingssySahoAfroasiatic · 271,1805 · DevelopingnrbNaraNilo-Saharan · 80,0006a · VigorousbynBlinAfroasiatic · 70,0005 · DevelopingkunKunamaunclassified4 · Educational