Tigrinya language

Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea

Tigrinya or Tigrigna,, historically known as Lisane Habesha or (Ethiopian Dialect's name: Lisane Tigray), is an Ethio-Semitic language, With its earliest written signs being found in the Logo Sarda customary law of Akele Guzay (Southern Eritrea). The language developed separate from Ge'ez after the fall of the Askumite Empire, the language is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is primarily spoken by the Eritrean Tigrinya and Northern Ethiopian Tigrayan peoples, native to the Hamasien, Seraye, and Akele Guzay Regions of Eritrea and to the Tigray Region of Ethiopia, respectively.

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