Tigrinyan.
/tɪˈɡriːnjə/ A Semitic language spoken in the Tigre province of Ethiopia. Cf. Tigray n.
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1878 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 612/2 There are at least two modern languages which have sprung from the ancient Geez, distinguished in modern philology by the conventional names of Tigriña and Tigré.
1908 T. G. Tucker Introd. Nat. Hist. Lang. 172 Along with Amharic (of South-West Abyssinia) go the contaminated dialects Tigre (of the north), Tigrine (of the centre), and Harari (of Harai, east of Gallaland).
1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 364 Ethiopic..still serves as a learned language, though its true linguistic successor is Tigriña or Tigray, which is written by few except officials of the Italian colony of Eritrea.
1955 F. R. Palmer in E. P. Hamp et al. Readings in Linguistics II (1966) 341 The paradigms that may be set up for the nominals in Tigrinya..consist of two members.
1976 D. Topolski Muzungu iii. 35 She smacked my hand sharply and said something loudly in Tigrinya.
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