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	www.appliedlanguage.com /languages/spanish_translation.shtml (523 words)

	Tigrinya language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tigrinya should not be confused with the related Tigre language, which is spoken in the lowland regions in Eritrea to the north and west of the region where Tigrinya is spoken.
		Tigrinya (along with Arabic) was one of Eritrea's official languages during its short-lived federation with Ethiopia; in 1958 it was replaced with Amharic prior to its annexation.
		Tigrinya nouns have plural, as well as singular, forms, though the plural is not obligatory when the linguistic or pragmatic context makes the number clear.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/tigrignan_language (1995 words)

	Semitic Languages Branch of the Afro-Asiatic Language Family
		As the language of the Qur'an and as a lingua franca of the region, it is widely studied in the Moslem world.
		Tigrinya (Tigrigna) is one of the main working languages of Eritrea, which does not have an official language, and one of the official languages of the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.
		Akkadian is an extinct Semitic language that was spoken in Mesopotamia from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BC.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/august/SemiticLanguages.html (1214 words)

	Semitic languages at AllExperts
		Semitic languages were among the earliest to attain a written form, with Akkadian writing beginning in the middle of the third millennium BC.
		Semitic daughter languages spread outwards from its heartland in the Arabian Peninsula and the southern Levant.
		All Semitic languages exhibit a unique pattern of stems consisting of "triliteral" or consonantal roots (normally consisting of three consonants), from which nouns, adjectives, and verbs are formed by inserting vowels with, potentially, prefixes, suffixes, or infixes (consonants inserted within the original root).
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/se/semitic_languages.htm (2432 words)

	Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language)
		Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these many Middle Easter countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident.
		Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident.
		It diverged from the South Arabian languages around the beginning of the Christian era, reaching its greatest extension in the 4th century AD, when it was spoken especially in the kingdom of Aksum on either side of the present-day border of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
	phoenicia.org /semlang.html (2757 words)

	tigrinya eritrean ethiopian phrases
		Tigrinya is the main language of Eritrea and is also widely spoken in the Tigray area in Ethiopia.
		It belongs to the Ethiopic branch of the Semitic language family.
		Tigrinya, spoken by at least half the population of Eritrea, has its own script derived from the ancient language Gee'ez, now only used in the Orthodox Church.
	www.kwintessential.co.uk /resources/language/tigrinya-phrases.html (104 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:TGN
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		3,224,875 mother tongue speakers, 146,933 second language speakers, 3,284,568 in the ethnic group, 2,819,755 monolinguals in Ethiopia (1998 census).
		Literacy rate in second language: 5% to 25%.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=TGN (90 words)

	Languages of Eritrea - Tigrinya
		The use and development of all nine of Eritrea's languages are encouraged at the local level, and children attend primary school through the fifth grade in their mother tongue.
		Tigrinya word endings vary according to the gender of the person you are speaking to.
		Learning Tigrinya is both easy and fun with this multimedia program featuring point and click native speaker's sound with the ability to record your own and compare to a native speaker.
	home.planet.nl /~hans.mebrat/eritrea-languages.htm (596 words)

	African Proverb of the Month
		Among the Tigrinya people of Eritrea and Ethiopia, grains especially maize and sorghum have over the years been important in their cultural and social economic realms.
		The Tigrinya people in Eritrea have emphasized the growing of grains particularly sorghum in the recent years following their independence from Ethiopian domination as a way to show their economic and livelihood independence.
		As for the meaning of this Tigrinya proverb, its application is connected on the relationships among the Tigrinya themselves and their neighbors.
	www.afriprov.org /explain/oldexplain.htm (625 words)

	UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page
		Geographical Center: Tigrinya is spoken primarily in the Tigray province of Ethiopia and in the highlands and urban centers of Eritrea.
		Tigrinya is one of the official languages of both Eritrea and Ethiopia.
		Asmara is the dialect of Tigrinya spoken in Eritrea and Tigray is the dialect spoken in Ethiopia.
	www.lmp.ucla.edu /Profile.aspx?LangID=18&menu=004 (659 words)

	Exerts From "Amharic Verb Morphology: A Generative Approach"
		Not only are the languages spoken by most Ethiopians genetically related, but (as Ferguson 1970 and 1976 has shown) the phenomenon of diffusion of traits over a large area has resulted in even more sharing of common features than one would expect among languages of three coordinate branches of a super-family.
		The conquering Semitic-speakers spoke a language which was perhaps only four to seven centuries removed from a common origin with Giiz, the classical language of the Aksum Empire and of Medieval Ethiopian religion and literature.
		Tigrinya was influenced by the local Agew populations and is now the dominant language in Eritrea and Tigre Provinces, spoken by nearly 4,000,000 persons there and in urban settlements throughout Ethiopia.
	www.abyssiniagateway.net /info/bender.html (1976 words)

	Drunken Boat \| Reesom Haile
		Tigrinya derives from the ancient language of Ge’ez.
		These nine languages are the basis of a progressive mother-tongue education system in Eritrea, which continues up to the fifth grade.
		Indeed, if "to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life," it must also have memory, ancestors, history, archaeology, myths and a continuing and changing life: precisely as is embodied in Reesom Haile’s poetry.
	www.drunkenboat.com /db3/haile/intro.html (1629 words)

	EthnoMed: Tigrean Cultural Profile
		It was a highly literate society, soon developing an alphabet, and it is from the language Geez that modern Tigrinya, the language of Tigry and Eritrea has evolved.
		Tigrinya is derived from Geez, during the 4th century.
		But Tigrinya was a medium of instruction in the Eritrean school system when it was under the British mandate in the 40s and later when it was federated with Ethiopia.
	ethnomed.org /cultures/tigrean/tig_cp.html (1987 words)

	Language Log: The International Phonetic Alphabet
		For instance, the IPA symbols for the voiceless and voiced post-alveolar fricatives, ʃ and ʒ;, do not appear on normal typewriters, especially English language typewriters, meaning that anyone writing in or about a language with these sounds, which are quite common, had to leave space for them and write them in by hand.
		Tigrinya is a language whose sound system is quite exotic from an English speaker's point of view.
		This is a traditional usage of Semitic specialists, based on the fact that in some Semitic languages the cognate sound is a voiceless uvular stop, whose IPA symbol is [q].
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000911.html (1795 words)

	The Hail Mary in Various Languages
		Cornish is a language of the Celtic family of Indo-European languages spoken initially in Cornwall and the southwest of England.
		Tigrinya is probably the most widely spoken language of Eritrea, a nation located on the Red Sea in Northeast Africa which recently obtained its independence from Ethiopia after a long and bitter struggle followed by a referendum in 1993.
		There is an Academy of the Galician Language, and it has had many decades of development as an ecclesiastical language, a language of serious literature, including poetry, essays on novel, ideological, philosophical, and sociological topics, and for all levels of education, including higher education.
	campus.udayton.edu /mary/resources/flhm01.html (5103 words)

	Tigrinya Translation - Translate Tigrinya Language Translator
		Tigrinya should not be confused with the related Tigre language, which is spoken in a region in Eritrea to the west of the region where Tigrinya is spoken.
		For the representation of Tigrinya sounds, this article uses a modification of a system that is common (though not universal) among linguists who work on Ethiopian Semitic languages, but it differs somewhat from the conventions of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
		The name of the language, which its speakers as well as others use to refer to it, is derived from the region in Ethiopia where most of its speakers live, Tigray; the suffix -əñña means 'language of'.
	www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/tigrinya.shtml (523 words)

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		Tigrinya - a cousin language to Amharic - is spoken by about 6 million people in Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia.
		Vidal's name would look the same in each language because both use the Fidel (Ethiopic) alphabet, which is derived from Ge'ez, the Semitic root language of both.
		If anyone knows of a Vidal work translated into these languages - or if a translator would like to discuss works that might be translated into Amharic or Tigrinya - please contact me.
	www.pitt.edu /~kloman/amharic.html (348 words)

	Arabic language and history by ALS International (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Arabic is the official language of Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, and Yemen as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations.
		In addition, it is widely spoken in countries such as Somalia and is the language of the holy writings of Muslims throughout the world.
		While the origins of the Semitic language family are currently in dispute among scholars, there is agreement that they flourished in the Mediterranean Basin area, especially in the Tigris-Euphrates river basin and in the coastal areas of the Levant.
	www.alsintl.com /languages/arabic.htm (891 words)

	Tigrinya language resources
		Malay, Malayalam, Pashto, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Swahili, Tajik, Tamil, Tigrinya, Turkish, Turkmen, Uigur, Urdu, Uzbek, and Vietnamese.
		Tigrinya Bible Tigrinya is spoken primarily in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
		Tigrinya Tigrinya is spoken by 6,060,000 people: 4,150,000 in Ethiopia, 1,900,000 in Eritrea, 10,000 in Israel.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Tigrinya.html (1182 words)

	Soqotri language resources
		...and history, as a linguistic term the language family is well-defined to include ancient and modern...
		...languages spoken in Yemen include Mehri, with 70,643 speakers, Soqotri, with an estimated 43,000 speakers (2004 census) mainly on the island of Socotra, and Bathari (with an estimated total of only 200...
		Soqotri is the native language of the island of Socotra off the southern coast of Yemen.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Soqotri.html (882 words)

	Ethiopia - Ethio-Semitic Language Groups
		It was the empire's official language and is still widely used in government and in the capital despite the Mengistu regime's changes in language policy.
		The Tigray (whose language is Tigrinya) constitute the second largest category of Ethio-Semitic speakers.
		Of the seven Ethio-Semitic languages found among the Gurage of southern Shewa, four are single tongues and three are dialect clusters, each encompassing four or five dialects.
	countrystudies.us /ethiopia/49.htm (797 words)

	Cover Pages: Code for the Representation of the Names of Languages. From ISO 639, revised 1989.
		The two-character language codes of ISO 639 are relevant to SGML encoding in two respects.
		Second, the WSD (Writing System Declaration) implemented in the Text Encoding Initiative uses the [two-character] language code of ISO 639 (as amended) as a language.code attribute of the nat.language declaration, specifying the language in which the WSD is written.
		The two-character language codes of ISO 639 are recognized as being inadequate for use as SGML language attributes when tagging text, viz, for use as global lang attributes attached to any element to identify the language of the text element or a language shift.
	www.oasis-open.org /cover/iso639a.html (687 words)

	Tigrinya language
		Tigrinya is an Ethio-Semitic language spoken in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia.
		Tigre", which is a closely related language also spoken in Eritrea; nor with "Tigray", which is a province of Ethiopia and one of the places where Tigrinya is spoken.
		I have worked on the nature of root morphology in the language -- how association of consonants occurs, and the gradient nature of consonant cooccurrence restrictions -- as well as the question of whether historical Semitic vowel length still exists in modern Tigrinya.
	www.ling.upenn.edu /~gene/tigrinya.html (109 words)

	* Tigre, Tigrinya, Tigray -- Ethnicites, Languages and Politics *
		Various forms of the same root word are used in different ways in the three languages Amharic, Tigrinya and Tigre, to refer to the different groups of these related peoples and their speech.
		In general usage I have found that the form "Tigrinya" (which should technically mean "language of the Tigre") is used to refer to the speakers of the Tigrinya language on the Eritrean side of the border.
		The term "Tigrinya" is generally used to refer to the speech of both, since linguists consider it one language.
	orvillejenkins.com /peoples/tigretigraytigrinya.html (1845 words)

	Detail Page
		Semitic language from the Afro-Asiatic language group spoken in the highlands of Eritrea.
		Tigrinya is spoken by the Tigrinya, or Tigray, people, whose ancestors resulted from an intermingling of native Kushitic peoples with Semitic immigrants who came to Africa from Arabia at the beginning of the common era.
		The Tigrinya language developed from Ge'ez, the ancient Ethiopian written language that has been traced as far back as the kingdom of Aksum.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=AFR0515 (108 words)

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