For other uses please see Tigre (disambiguation)
Tigre (Ge'ez ትግረ tigre or ትግሬ tigrē; sometimes written as Tigré, also known as Xasa in Sudan; Arabic ألخاصية ḫāṣiyah) is a Semitic language which along with Tigrinya is a direct descendant of the extinct Ge'ez language. (Ge'ez is still in use as the liturgical language of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church.) As of 1997, Tigré was spoken by approximately 800,000 people Eritrea. The Tigre people ...
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For other uses please see Tigre (disambiguation)
Tigre (Ge'ez ትግረ tigre or ትግሬ tigrē; sometimes written as Tigré, also known as Xasa in Sudan; Arabic ألخاصية ḫāṣiyah) is a Semitic language which along with Tigrinya is a direct descendant of the extinct Ge'ez language. (Ge'ez is still in use as the liturgical language of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church.) As of 1997, Tigré was spoken by approximately 800,000 people Eritrea. The Tigre people are nearly all found in western Eritrea, with the remainder inhabiting the adjacent part of Sudan. In Eritrea, they inhabit the central and northern plateau and the Red Sea shores north of Zula. Traditionally, the local language of the Dahlak Archipelago, Dahlik, has been considered a dialect of Tigré, but recently one researcher has reassessed this view.
The Tigré people are not be confused with their neighbors to the south, the Tigrinya people of Eritrea and Ethiopia. The northern Ethiopian province which is now named the Tigray Region is a...
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