Languages of Eritrea[1] | |
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Main | Tigrinya, Tigre, Kunama, Bilen, Nara, Saho, Afar, Beja[1][2] |
Foreign | English, Arabic, Italian (previously) |
Signed | Eritrean Sign Language, older sign languages |
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The main languages spoken in Eritrea are Tigrinya, Tigre, Kunama, Bilen, Nara, Saho, Afar, and Beja. The country's working languages are Tigrinya, Arabic, English, and formerly Italian.
Tigrinya is the most widely spoken language in the country and had 2,540,000 native speakers out of the total population of 5,254,000 in 2006.[3] The remaining residents primarily speak other languages from the Afroasiatic family, Nilo-Saharan languages or Indo-European languages.