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Tigrinya

Tigrinya

9.9
A person who belongs to a group of people from Eritrea and northern Ethiopia
  • noun
  • /tɪˈɡrɪn.jə/
: tigrinya
  • The Tigrinya community in the city organizes festivals to celebrate their heritage.

Examples

  • In the lowlands, by the time Isaias finished his bottle of Bud, many lowlanders had joined the ELF to fight Haileslassie, and many women and children left for Sudan in droves to escape from their burning villages by Tigrinya-speaking soldiers.

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  • Many Tigrinya speakers from Eritrea share rich cultural traditions and stories.

  • Semere can simply be described as a supremacist who will go to any length to rationalize and defend his Tigrinya, Kebessa, Tewahedo identity at the cost of his own intellectual integrity.

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  • At the event, I met a person who proudly identifies as part of the Tigrinya-speaking people.

Surface Forms

Tigrinya singular
Tigrinyas plural

Etymology

Tigrinya also names a person who speaks the language or comes from the Tigray area, because the ending -nya shows 'a person' or 'people'. So a Tigrinya is someone of that language and culture.