[2] The original speakers of the Tigre language were mainly Christian, reflecting cultural exchange with neighboring Ethiopia.

[6] There are also a number of Eritreans of Tigre origin living across the Middle East, North America, the United Kingdom and Australia.

The Eritrean government uses the Ge'ez writing system (an abugida) to publish documents in the Tigre language.

[10] The Tigre people, language and their area of inhabitation should not be confused with that of the Tigrayans, who live in northern Ethiopia and the Biher-Tigrinya who live in the central Eritrean highlands, both of which speak varying dialects of Tigrinya, a closely related Semitic language.

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, Maria Tselam) and Dahalik, which is spoken in Dahlak archipelago.