ሰላም!
say it: “seh-LAHM”
Tigrinya
in its own words: ትግርኛ
- Speakers
- 9 million (estimate)
- Family
- Afroasiatic – Semitic
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan
- Script
- Ethiopic
- Official language
- Eritrea (de facto)
Fun fact
Tigrinya is the main language of Eritrea and Ethiopia's Tigray. It uses the Ge'ez abugida like Amharic, to which it is related but not mutually intelligible.