Afro-Asiatic · ISO 639-3 tig
Tigre Language ትግረ
Tigre is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by about 1.1 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Ethiopic script.
Where Tigre is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Tigre
Language family
- Afro-Asiatic
- Semitic
- West Semitic
- Ethiosemitic
- Tigre-Dahalik
- Tigre
Writing system
Ethiopic script
Related languages
About the Tigre language
Tigre (ትግረ) is spoken by about 1.1 million people, which makes it the 452nd most spoken language in the world — just behind Romagnol (1.1 million) and ahead of Tesaka Malagasy (1.1 million). It belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family and, more precisely, to the Tigre-Dahalik group within the West Semitic branch.
Where is Tigre spoken?
Tigre is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Eritrea (1.1 million).
Tigre is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Tigre is written in the Ethiopic script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Amharic, Tigrinya, Sebat Bet Gurage, Arabic, Standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 tig.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.