Tigrinya
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- noun
- /tɪˈɡrɪn.jə/
- Many Eritreans are proud to speak Tigrinya, as it connects them to their heritage.
Examples
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The Tigre, Tigrai, Tigrinya, Amhara, and many others in our region's history run deep, and these commonalities, if we could just wise up, could be the launching pad for future collaboration and the rebirth of a new Habesha age.
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Just in time, the government is "revisiting" its land allocation policy and, for reasons that nobody has explained, selling copies of the country's "ratified" constitution booklets in Tigrinya, Arabic, and English.
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First-generation parents reportedly try to prevent the loss of native-language skills by speaking to their children in Amharic, Oromo, or Tigrinya in the home and in exclusively ethnic spaces.
Academic text (2003) -
"The Tigre, Tigrai, Tigrinya, Amhara, and many others in our region's history run deep, and these commonalities, if we could just wise up, could be the launching pad for future collaboration and the rebirth of a new Habesha age."
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In schools across Eritrea, children learn subjects in Tigrinya to preserve their cultural identity.
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The new book on Ethiopian linguistics includes a chapter dedicated to the Tigrinya language.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tigrinya is named after the region Tigray plus the ending -nya meaning 'language', so Tigrinya is the name of the language spoken in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia.