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:

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

In terms of writing systems, Eritrea's principal orthography is Ge'ez, Latin script and Arabic script.

Word List(s)

Tigrinya

Tigre

Afar

Beja

• Word and Number List (Wikipedia)

Bilen

Kunama

• Kunama Word List (Wiktionary)

Nara

Saho

Alphabet and Pronunciation

Tigrinya

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

Tigre

• Tigre Phonology (Wikipedia)
• Tigre Writing system (Wikipedia)

Afar

• Afar Phonology (Wikipedia)
• Afar Writing system (Wikipedia)

Beja

• Beja Phonology (Wikipedia)

Bilen

• Bilen Phonology (Wikipedia)
• Bilen Writing system (Wikipedia)

Kunama

Nara

Saho

Language Aids and Dictionaries

Tigrinya