Eritrea Languages

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Description

Eritrea is a multilingual country. The nation has no official language, as the Constitution establishes the "equality of all Eritrean languages". Tigrinya, Arabic, and English serve as de facto working languages, with English used in university education and many technical fields.
Eritrea has many national languages which are:

• Tigrinya
• Tigre
• Afar
• Beja
• Bilen
• Kunama
• Nara
• Saho

Word List(s)

Tigrinya

Alphabet and Pronunciation

Tigrinya

• Tigrinya Phonology (Wikipedia)
• Tigrinya Writing system (Wikipedia)

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Tigrinya