Tigrinya is also derived from the parent Geʽez tongue[citation needed], but is quite distinct from Tigre despite the similarity in name.

There are several dialects of Tigre, some of them are; Mansa’ (Mensa), Habab, Barka, Semhar, Algeden, Senhit (Ad-Tekleis, Ad-Temariam, Bet-Juk, Marya Kayah) and Dahalik, which is spoken in the Dahlak Archipelago.

As in other Ethiopian Semitic languages, the phonemic status of /ə/ is questionable; it may be possible to treat it as an epenthetic vowel that is introduced to break up consonant clusters.

These notes use the spelling adopted by Camperio (1936 – see bibliography) which seems to approximate to Italian rules.

As we might expect from a Semitic language, specifically feminine forms, where they exist, are often formed of an element with t: In a similar way, sound-changes can also mark the difference between singular and plural: Personal pronouns distinguish "you, masculine" and "you, feminine" in both singular and plural: The possessive pronouns appear (a) suffixed to the noun, (b) as separate words: The verb "to be": The verb "to be", past tense: The verb "to have": and so on, with the last word in each case: The verb "to have": past tense, using a feminine noun as an example: and so on, with the last word in each case: Since around 1889, the Ge'ez script (Ethiopic script) has been used to write the Tigre language.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:[9] Basic sentences: Other samples: