Editing Tigrinya language (section)

{{Short description|Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea}}
{{Distinguish|Tigre language}}
{{use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Tigrinya
| nativename       = {{lang|ti|ትግርኛ}} ({{transliteration|ti|Təgrəñña}})
| pronunciation    = {{IPA|ti|tɨɡrɨɲːä||ti-ትግርኛ.oga}}
| states           = [[Eritrea]], [[Ethiopia]]
| speakers         = {{sigfig|9.940190|2}} million
| date             = 2022–2023
| ref              = <ref name="E28">{{cite web |last1=Eberhard |first1=David M. |last2=Simons |first2=Gary F. |last3=Fennig |first3=Charles D. |title=Tigrinya |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/tir/|website=Ethnologue, 28th ed. |publisher=SIL International |access-date=March 28, 2025 |date=2025}}</ref>
| ethnicity        = [[Tigrayans]]<br />[[Tigrinya people|Tigrinya]]
| familycolor      = Afro-Asiatic
| fam2             = [[Semitic languages|Semitic]]
| fam3             = [[West Semitic languages|West Semitic]]
| fam4             = [[South Semitic languages|South Semitic]]
| fam5             = [[Ethiopian Semitic languages|Ethiopic]]
| fam6             = [[Ethiopian Semitic languages|North]]<ref>{{e28|tir}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Classification-of-Ethiosemitic-languages-according-to-Hudson-2013_fig1_363263199|title=Classification of Ethio Semitic languages according to Hudson 2013|publisher=Research Gate|access-date=21 April 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363263199_Issues_in_Mapping_and_Classifying_the_Semitic_Languages_of_Ethiopia/download?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6Il9kaXJlY3QifX0|title=Issues in mapping and classifying the Semitic languages of Ethiopia|publisher=Tekabe Legesse Felake|access-date=21 April 2025}}</ref>
| script           = [[Geʽez script]] (Tigrinya alphabet)
| nation           = {{flag|Eritrea}}<br />{{flag|Ethiopia}}
| iso1             = ti
| iso2             = tir
| iso3             = tir
| glotto           = tigr1271
| glottorefname    = Tigrinya
| notice           = IPA
| image            = Tigrinya text.svg
| imagescale       = 0.7
| map = Eritrea_Ethiopia_locator.svg
| mapcaption = Countries where Tigrinya holds official status:<ref name="Tigrinya language">{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tigrinya-language |title=Tigrinya language |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |date=2024-03-06}}</ref> {{legend|green|Eritrea}}
{{legend|orange|Ethiopia}}
}}
{{Contains special characters|Ethiopic}}
[[File:Tigrinya notices at an Eritrean Orthodox Church, Schiebroek, Rotterdam (2021) 02.jpg|thumb|Tigrinya notices at an [[Eritrean Orthodox Church]] in [[Schiebroek]], [[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]].]]
'''Tigrinya''' ({{langx|ti|ትግርኛ|Təgrəñña|label=none}}), sometimes spelled '''Tigrigna''', is an [[Ethio-Semitic languages|Ethio-Semitic]] language commonly spoken in [[Eritrea]] and in northern [[Ethiopia]]'s [[Tigray Region]] by the [[Tigrinya people|Tigrinya]] and [[Tigrayans|Tigrayan]] peoples respectively.<ref name="Tigrinya language">{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tigrinya-language |title=Tigrinya language |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |date=2024-03-06}}</ref> It is also spoken by the global diaspora of these regions.