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Tigrinya

ትግርኛ təgrəñña

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About:

  • ISO_639-2 code: tir
  • Scripts: Ge'ez script (ግዕዝ) aka fidel
  • Latinizations:

Language vitality - and study resources:

  • vital
  • national status (Eritrea) , regional status (Tigray-region Ethiopia)
  • under-resourced

Textbooks and grammars

Let's Speak Tigrinya By Issayas Tesfamariam (2018) 978-1-59703-02x-x

  • Tigrinya Grammar: John Mason
  • Tigrinya Reader And Grammar: Mulugetta Girmay Melles
  • Gir?Zion - English through Tigrinya
  • ..
  • The Essential Guide to Tigrinya (good overview, useful vocabulary) / Andrew Tadross
  • Tigrinya Verb Conjugation: Dimstekal, Kokeb, Tadross, Andrew [ Example phrases quite useful ]
  • hippocrenebooks :Tigrinya phrasebook

Bilingual books

http://www.tapbookauthor.com/bokbussenapp/Default.html : by GAN Aschehoug Publishing House : Online accessible children books, (With Audio, also of the Tigrinya version) in levels 1 .. 4 : where all the context is translated into several languages: The main language is Norwegian: Translations into : Tigrinya, English, Norwegian, Dari (Persian), Kurdish (Kurmanji), Pashto, an Arabic: [bokmål nynorsk engelsk dari kurdisk pashto arabisk tigrinja] see also : https://gan.aschehoug.no

https://www.morsmal.no/ti/ - Another Norwegien blog with some entries in several languages: Tigrinya included https://www.morsmal.no/no/ https://www.morsmal.no/ti/tigrinja-naturfag/8547-smak-barnetrinnet-tigrinja [ Arabisk العربية Dari دری Kurdisk Sorani کوردی Litauisk Lietuvių Pashto پښتو Persisk فارسی Polsk Polski Russisk Русский Somali Soomaali Spansk Español Tamil தமிழ் Thaiไ ทย Tigrinja ትግርኛ Tyrkisk Türkçe Urdu اردو]

Learning Podcasts

Dictionaries phrasebooks (online)

Input Methods (Keyboards)

Online Translation Service

Mobile Apps

Media:

Podcasts in Tigrinya

  • SBS radio
  • VOA Tigrinya

Videos

Children books / books with translations:

  • Pipi-Longstockings
  • The little prince

Dictionaries

http://clu.uni.no/prod/bildetema-portal/index.html?page=simple-html5&version=swedish

Children Books online :

http://art-of-buna.de/ethiopian-childrens-books/dance-saron-dance/?lang=en - PDF - Dance, Saron, Dance! – 14 4 short stories by Ethiopian authors (Translations to: Tigrinya (Ethiopian orthography) , Amharic and Omoro)

http://art-of-buna.de/ethiopian-childrens-books/der-finderlohn-die-maus-und-herr-eichhorn/?lang=en - The Mouse and Mr Squirrel / The Reward – two traditional fairy tales from Ethiopia ( Translations : Tigrinya Oromo Amharic )