BFSU LANGUAGE ENTRY
079 / 101Tigrinya
ትግርኛAt BFSU, Tigrinya is among 101 approved foreign languages, connecting the university’s multilingual education with the places and cultures where the language is used.
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Israel
- NATIVE NAME
- ትግርኛ
- WRITING SYSTEM
- Ethiopic script
- AT BFSU
- One of 101 languages
LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD
See where Tigrinya connects communities.
LANGUAGE REACH
Tigrinya is spoken across 3 countries and territories.
No. 51 of 101 languages · No. 50 by territory count
Middle East & North Africa
01Israel
Sub-Saharan Africa
01Ethiopia
Other areas
01Eritrea
From daily conversation in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Israel to education, literature and media, Tigrinya carries the accents, vocabulary and expressions of different communities.
Population and distribution figures use Unicode CLDR 48 ↗ estimates of people able to use the language, including first- and second-language users. Recorded reach counts territories with an estimated community of at least 10,000; figures are comparative, not live counts.
AT BFSU
A language opens a wider view of the world.
BFSU places Tigrinya within a multilingual programme that brings language study together with literature, history, society and regional knowledge.
The language is commonly written in Ethiopic script; its literature, media and everyday expressions carry the experiences of the communities that use it.
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