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ትግሬ | تقرى | TIGRE

Welcome to our living digital archive of resources and educational materials of the Tigre (Tigrayit) language and its speakers of Eritrea and Eastern Sudan #SpeakTigre

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Our Story

Tigre is a rich, vast, and diverse language with several unique dialects and multiple ways to say one word depending on region, ethnic group, or culture. We think this makes the Tigre language unique and valuable for Eritreans (and everyone interested) to be familiar with —and learn. Learning your mother tongue across lands and oceans can feel like an impossible feat. We hope our collection of diverse resources created by passionate people invested in the Tigre language will help ease that burden. We intend to be a curator of existing resources created by native Tigre speakers who are educators, scholars, and experts. We want to make these resources free, accessible, and easy to share. We ask that everyone joining us on this journey keep an open mind and work in good faith to make this educational experience one that is also enjoyable!

Check out our Linktree to see our resource list of websites, movies, podcasts, and more, which will be added to the site in the coming phases. 

Documents 

 

Welcome to our living library. This collection includes a variety of resources from books, articles, and research documents written in various languages from Tigre, English, German, French and Italian. Each resource has a download button below it. Once clicked, the selected document will open a new window with download and print options. As we shared, this is a LIVING archive; as such, we hope it can constantly grow and ask you, our community, to help nurture it. Please contact us if you have any documents, books, videos, or audio about Tigre (Tigrayit) or its speakers!

A directory of Tigre Documents Library can be found HERE.

Wörterbuch der Tigrê-Sprache

German

Dictionary of the Tigre language in German and English.

Enno Littmann and Maria Hofner

Fitih (Mehari) Mensa -Collection of stories, rules and lands of the Mensa people of Eritrea

ክልኤ : መንሳዕ :: (Fitih Mehari)

Tigre

Collection of stories, rules, and lands of the Mensa people.

Karl Gustav Roden

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Publication of The Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia Volume I

Tigre

Collection of tales, customs, and dirges of Tigre tribes

Enno Littman

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Le Tribu Dei Mensa

Italian

Collection of stories and customs of the Mensa people.

Karl Gustav Roden

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Vocabulary of the Tigre Language

English

With a grammatical sketch.

Moritz Von Beurmann

Descriptive Study of Tigre Grammar

English

Linguistic description of the Mensa dialect of the Tigre language.

Shlomo Raz

Is Dahalik A Dialect of Tigre?

English

Research paper

Sahleh Mahmud Idris

A Report on the Automatic Parsing of Tigre

English

Lots of Morphology and Bits of Syntax

Klaus Wedekind

Mohammed Ali, Emanini (Trust Me)

English

Linguistic features of a novel in Tigre

Gianfrancesco Lusini

The Story of the Translation of the Bible into Tǝgre

English

(1877-1988)

Senai W. Andemariam

Constructing and Deconstructing the Tigre Frontier Space in the Long Nineteenth Century

English

In Gianfrancesco Lusini (ed.), History and Language of the Tigre-Speaking Peoples. Proceedings of the International Workshop, Naples, February 7-8, 2008

Jonathan Miran

Galab Historical Protestant Missionary

English

Research paper excerpt

Author Unknown

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History and Language of the Tigre-speaking Peoples

English

Research paper excerpt

Various Authors

The Legend of the Queen of Sheba

English-Tigre

Studies concerning the languages, literature, and history of Abyssinia

Enno Littmann

Tigre and the Others Linguistics and Cultural Changes Within The Area

English

Opening speech

Gianfrancesco Lusini

Trying to Find the Steppingstones: Writing Tigre and Bilen Dancing in Eritrea

English

An Impressionistic Choreography within a Theatre Context

Christine Matzke

Tigre Studies in the 21st Century

English

Tigre language, history, and culture

Rüdiger Köppe Verlag · Köln

Vacabulaire de La Langue Tigre 

French

Vocabulary of the Tigre Language

Werner Munzinger

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North Ethiopic and Amharic Cognates in Tigre

English

Tigre dictionary

Wolf Leslau

Dehai Tigre Grammer

English

Tigre vocabulary and grammar

Omar M. Kekia

Tigre Language of Ghinda, Eritrea

English

Short grammar and texts

David L. Elias

The Morphology of the Tigre Noun

English

Tigre grammar and vocabulary

F. R. Palmer

Tigre Grammar and Texts

English

Tigre grammar 

Shlomo Raz

The Morphology of the Tigre Verb

English

Mansa Dialect

Shlomo Raz

Copula Construction in

Geez and Tigre

English

In Ronny Meyer, Andreas Wetter and Joachim Crass (eds.) 2008 Deictics, Copula, and Focus in the Ethiopian Convergence Area Rüdiger Köpper Verlag

Girma A Demeke

La-fala:lac’a ħĭč’ey:

The Woodchopper

English

Tigre (Samhar) Text and Grammatical Notes

Mohammad Abdu

Tigre Field Notes

English

Lessons with Mohamad Abdu

Noam Faust

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Publication of The Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia Volume II

English

Collection of tales, customs, and dirges of Tigre tribes

Enno Littman

Names of Persons In Tigre Country

English

List of names and meanings

Author Unknown

Arabic Loanwords In Tigre

English

List of Arabic words and definitions

Wolf Leslau

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Triple Take: Tigre and The Case of Internal Republication

English

Aspects of internal reduplication

Sharon Rose

Eroded prefixes, gemination and guttural effects in Tigre

English

An account in CVCV phonology

Naom Faust

Relative Clauses in Tigre

English

Speech from Mr. Lijam Ishaq of Gheleb, Eritrea

F. R. Palmer

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Remarks on an Encyclopaedic Article on Tegre

English

From Aethiopia 18 (2015) Internal Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies

Saleha Mahmud Idris and Rainer Voigt

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Get That In Your Head: Tigre Vowel Harmonies Templatic

English

Article arguing that vocalic expressions are templatic.

Naom Faust

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The Genealogical Position of Tigre and the Problem of North Ethio-Semitic Unity

English

Relationship between Tigre and other Ethio-Semitic languages.

Maria Bulakh and Leonid Kogan

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Manaule Tigre-Italiano

Italian

Italian-Tigre and Tigre-Italian dictionaries and demonstrative map of the languages ​​spoken in Eritrea

Manfredo Camperio  

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Viaggio Missione Cattolica, fra i Mensa, i Bogos, i gli Hababab , Con un Cenno Geografico e Storio Dell’ Abissinia

Italian

Catholic Mission Trip, Among the Mensa, the Bogos, the Habababs, With a Geographical and Historical Overview of Abyssinia

Giuseppe Sapeto 

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Letter of Tigre Representatives 1947

English

Tigre representatives letter to the Hon. Four Power Commission of former Italian Colonies

Various Authors

More additions are coming soon. Please contact us if you have resources you would like to see added. 

Disclaimer: Speak Tigre intends for this to be a library of available resources on the Tigre language or the culture, customs, and history of Tigre-speaking peoples. The views expressed in these documents are those of the authors and do not reflect Speak Tigre's official policy or position. Any content provided by authors is of their opinion and not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, individual, anyone, or anything.

Our deepest hope is to have a collection of resources that accurately represent our diversity, and we ask for you, our community, to help us achieve that. 

Contact

Our intention is community building, so we would love to hear from you with any questions, concerns, or suggestions. We are also always looking for new resources from books, documents, audio, video, or anything in between to add to our growing archive. If you have any leads, please reach out.

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