Tigrinya is a member of the Ethiopic branch of Semitic languages with about 6 million speakers mainly in the Tigre region of Ethiopia and in Central Eritrea. There are also large immigrant communities of Tigrinya speakers in Sudan, Saudi Arabia, the USA, Germany, Italy the UK, Canada and Sweden, as well as in other countries.
Tigrinya is written with a version of the Ge'ez script and first appeared in writing during the 13th century in a text on the local laws for the district of Logosarda in southern Eritrea.
Transliteration
Bəmäns̤ər kəbrən mäsälen kulom
säbat əntəwläṣu näs̤an maʿərän
əyom. Məstəwʿalen ḥəlenan zətäʿadälom
bəməxʷanom bəḥəwnätawi mänfäs
kətäḥalaläyu aläwom.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason
and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Information about the Tigrinya language and people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigrigna_language
http://home.planet.nl/~hans.mebrat/eritrea-langalph.htm
http://strategyleader.org/profiles/tigrinya.html
Online Tigrinya lessons
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~gasmerom/Eritrean_languages/tigrigna/
https://www.glovico.org/en/tigrinya
Tigrinya phrases
Online radio in Tigrinya
http://www.voanews.com/horn/amharic_audio.cfm
Free Ge'ez fonts
http://www.ethiozena.net/info/faq.html
http://hometown.aol.com/Feedel/Feedel.htm
http://www.geezsoft.com/download.html
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