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history: The Tigre language spoken by the Tigre tribe of Eritrea, has the most similarities with the ancient Geez language. Tigre has a lexical similarity of 71% with Geez. Tigrinya has a lexical similarity of 68% with Geez and Amharic the least similarities with Geez.In one study, Tigre was found to have a 71% lexical similarity to Ge'ez, while Tigrinya had a 68% lexical similarity to Geʽez, followed by Amharic at 42%.[13] Most linguists believe that Geʽez does not constitute a common ancestor of modern Ethio-Semitic languages but became a separate language early on from another hypothetical unattested common language.[14][15][16] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geʽez
Along with Tigrinya, it is believed to be the most closely related living language to Ge'ez, which is still in use as the liturgical language of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Tigre has a lexical similarity of 71% with Ge’ez and of 64% with Tigrinya.[2] As of 1997, Tigre was spoken by approximately 800,000 Tigre people in Eritrea.[4] The Tigre mainly inhabit western Eritrea, though they also reside in the northern highlands of Eritrea and its extension into the adjacent parts of Sudan, as well as Eritrea's Red Sea coast north of Zula. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigre_language#
Ge'ez
Ge'ez (/ˈɡiːɛz/; ግዕዝ, Gəʿəz Template:IPA-gez; also transliterated Gi'iz) is an ancient South Semitic language of the Ethiosemitic branch. The language originates from the region encompassing northern Ethiopia and southern Eritrea in the Horn of Africa. Today, Ge'ez is used only as the main...
investigators of Tigre soon realized that the language fitted right into the pattern alongside of Geez. The latest studies confirm the earlier impression that Tigre seems to be nearest to Geez of modern languages. According to Bender Tigre is closest to Geez of all the languages 71%, Tigrinya close behind 68% . Tigre and Tigrinya seem to be significantly less related to one another than they both are to Geez. My impression is that this includes grammatical structure as well as vocabulary. Consequently the scholars who investigated Tigre assumed that the spelling Tigre would be the same as that of Geez. Unfortunately their interpretations of this were influenced by the correlation of spelling and pronunciation of Amharic and Tigrinya. Thus the Catholic mission, which did not have as much concern with Tigre people as the Swedish Evangelical Mission, followed what seemed to the classical and scholarly methods of spelling Tigre and analysis its grammar, producing a combined grammar and dictionary, “Grammatrica della Lingua Tigre.�
