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Name:
Tigrinya
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Tigrigna; Tigray
Spoken in:
Germany, Israel, Eritrea, Ethiopia, New Caledonia
Number of speakers:
3,220,000 in Ethiopia (1994 census). 2,819,755 monolinguals. Population total all countries: 5,791,710. Ethnic population: 3,284,568
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
221
(UNESCO)
Code:
tir
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Afro-Asiatic
Parent Subgroup:
North Ethiopian; Northern Ethio-Semitic; North Ethiopic; North (neth)
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered
Map of Tigrinya
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