The region was first referred to as Ma ' ikele Bahr (" between the seas / rivers ," i. e. the land between the Red Sea and the Mereb river ), renamed under Emperor Zara Yaqob as the domain of the Bahr Negash, called Midri Bahri ( Tigrinya: " Sea land ," though it included some areas like Shire on the other side of the Mereb, today in Ethiopia ) until the modern day, when its name was changed to Mereb Mellash ( beyond the river Mereb ) under the rule of Yohannes IV, the locals referred to this area as Midri Bahri.

Meat such as beef ( siga, Ge ' ez: ሥጋ śigā ), chicken ( Amharic: ዶሮ dōrō, Tigrinya: ደርሆ derhō ), fish ( Amharic: asa ), goat or lamb ( Amharic: beg, Tigrinya በግዕ beggiʻ ) is added ; legumes such as split peas ( Amharic: ክክ kik, Tigrinya: ክኪ kikkī ) or lentils ( Amharic: ምስር misir, Tigrinya: ብርስን birsin ); or vegetables such as potato ( dinich, Amharic: ድንች dinič, Tigrinya ድንሽ diniš ), carrots and chard ( Tigrinya: costa ) are also used in wat.

Although Tigrinya and Arabic are not the official languages, in practicality, all official documents are written in Tigrinya, and usually also contain Arabic and English.

The doum palm fruit-dates are also known in Eritrea as Akat, or Akaat in the Tigrinya language.

Tigre ( Ge ' ez ትግረ tigre or ትግሬ tigrē ; sometimes written as Tigré, also known as Xasa in Sudan ; Arabic الخاصية ) is a Semitic language, which, along with Tigrinya, is believed to be one of the direct descendants of the ancient Ge ' ez language ( Ethiopic ), a language which is still in use as the liturgical language of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church.

Tigrinya is also derived from the parent Ge ' ez, but is quite distinct from Tigre, despite the similarity of name.

The Mareb was important historically as the boundary between two separately governed regions in the area: the land of the Bahr negash ( Tigrinya " kingdom of the sea ", also known as Medri Bahri or " land of / by the sea ") to the north of the river, and the Tigray to the south.

Niter kibbeh, or niter qibe ( Ge ' ez ንጥር ቅቤ niṭer ḳibē ), also called tesmi ( in Tigrinya ), is a seasoned, clarified butter used in Ethiopian cooking.

There is also a large minority of the Tigrinya people in Keren.

Many also speak Amharic, Tigrinya and / or Tigre, which are also Afro-Asiatic languages but of the Semitic branch.

Shire ( ሽሬ ), also known as Inda Selassie ( እንዳ ሥላሴ, Tigrinya " House of the Trinity "), is a town and separate woreda in northern Ethiopia.

His musical influence also crosses borders to Eritrea ’ s neighboring countries where his music is reproduced by other musicians singing in a different language other than his native Tigrinya.

Maychew ( Tigrinya ማይጭው " Salty water ," also transliterated Mai Ceu, Maich ' ew, and Mai Cio ) is a town and separate woreda in northern Ethiopia.

The injera is then ready to bake into large flat pancakes, done either on a specialized electric stove or, more commonly, on a clay plate ( Amharic mittad, Tigrinya mogogo ) placed over a fire.

The Tigrayan People's Liberation Front ( TPLF ), known more commonly and sometimes as Woyane or Weyane ( Ge ' ez: ሕዝባዊ ወያኔ ሓርነት ትግራይ, Tigrinya: ḥizbāwī weyānē ḥārinet tigrāy, " Popular revolution ( for ) the freedom of Tigray ") is a political party in Tigray, Ethiopia.

Their language is called Tigrinya.

Following this, berbere is added to make a spicy keiy ( Amharic: ቀይ ḳey, Tigrinya, Ge ' ez: ቀይሕ ḳeyyiḥ ; " red ") wat, or may be omitted for a milder alicha wat or alecha wat ( Amharic: አሊጫ ālič ̣ ā ).

Eragrostis tef, known as Xaafii, ( Oromiffa ), teff, taf ( Amharic ጤፍ ṭēff, Tigrinya ጣፍ ṭaff ), is an annual grass, a species of lovegrass native to the northern Ethiopian Highlands of Northeast Africa.

Tigrinya should not be confused with the related Tigre language, which is spoken in the lowland regions in Eritrea to the north and west of the region where Tigrinya is spoken.

* For the representation of Tigrinya sounds, this article uses a modification of a system that is common ( though not universal ) among linguists who work on Ethiopian Semitic languages, but it differs somewhat from the conventions of the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Although it differs markedly from the classical Ge ' ez ( Ethiopic ) language-for instance, in having phrasal verbs, and in using a word-order that places the main verb last instead of first in the sentence ( as in Ethiopic ), there is a strong influence of Ge ' ez on Tigrinya literature, especially with terms that relate to Christian life, Biblical names, and so on.

The earliest written example of Tigrinya is a text of local laws found in the district of Logosarda, southern Eritrea, which dates from the 13th century.

There is no generally agreed upon name for the people who speak Tigrinya.

A native of Tigray is referred to in Tigrinya as ( male ), ( female ), or tegaru ( plural ).

Tigrinya is the third most spoken language in Ethiopia, after Amharic and Oromo, and by far the most spoken in Eritrea ( see Demographics of Eritrea ).

Injera ( Amharic, Tigrinya: እንጀራ, pronounced, sometimes transliterated enjera ; ; ) is a yeast-risen flatbread with a unique, slightly spongy texture.

The Semitic languages in Eritrea are Tigre, Tigrinya, the newly-recognized Dahlik, and Arabic ( spoken natively by the Rashaida Arabs ).

Tigrinya has a fairly typical set of phonemes for an Ethiopian Semitic language.

Unlike many of the modern Ethiopian Semitic languages, Tigrinya has preserved the two

Language families which distinguish ejective consonants include all three Caucasian families ( Northwest Caucasian languages, Northeast Caucasian languages and Kartvelian Georgian language ); the Athabaskan, Siouan and Salishan families of North America, along with the many diverse families of the Pacific Northwest from central California to British Columbia ; the Mayan family and Aymara ; the southern varieties of Quechua ( Qusqu-Qullaw ); the Afro-Asiatic family ( notably most of the Cushitic and Omotic languages, Hausa and South Semitic languages like Amharic and Tigrinya ) and a few Nilo-Saharan languages ; Sandawe, Hadza, and the Khoisan families of southern Africa.

* Ge ' ez, the predecessor of many Ethiopian Semitic languages ( e. g. Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre ) used as a liturgical language by Ethiopian Jews and by Ethiopian Christians ( in both the Orthodox Tewahedo and the Catholic churches ).

Now they speak Amharic and Tigrinya, both Semitic languages.

In Ethiopia it evolved later into the Ge ' ez alphabet, which, with added symbols throughout the centuries, has been used to write Amharic, Tigrinya and Tigre, as well as other languages ( including various Semitic, Cushitic, and Nilo-Saharan languages ).

The Emperor pressured Eritrea ’ s elected chief executive to resign, made Amharic the official language in place of Arabic and Tigrinya, terminated the use of the Eritrean flag, imposed censorship, and moved many businesses out of Eritrea.

The leadership of this multi-ethnic movement came to be dominated by leftist, Christian dissidents who spoke Tigrinya, Eritrea's predominant language.

Upon Eritrea's independence in 1991, Tigrinya retained the status of working language in the country, the only state in the world to date to award Tigrinya recognition on a national level.

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* Tigrinya language ISO 639-1 code

The largest ethnic group reported was the Tigrayan ( 98. 54 %) and Tigrinya was spoken as a first language by 98. 68 %.

The Unionists insisted in Tigrinya as the only official language of Eritrea.

The Unionists opposed Arabic because they considered it as a foreign language and came with a suggestion of Tigrinya and Tigre instead.

* Suwa ( Tigrinya language ), a local Ethiopian beer, see Tella ( Amharic language )

* Tigrinya language ISO 639 code

Amharic was spoken as a first language by 94. 57 %, and 4. 67 % spoke Tigrinya ; the remaining 0. 76 % spoke all other primary languages reported.