Back شعب التيجر Arabic شعب التيجر ARZ Tigre (Volk) German Tigreoj Esperanto Tigret Finnish Tigrés French Pobo tigré Galician תגרה HE तिग्रे लोग Hindi Tigrejci Croatian
ትግረ | |
|---|---|
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Eritrea | 1.8 million[1] |
 Sudan | c. 20,000 refugees[2] |
| Languages | |
| Tigre | |
| Religion | |
 Islam (95%) Christianity (5%)[3] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Tigrinya, Tigrayans, Amhara, Gurage and other Ethio-Semitic People[4] | |
The Tigre people (Tigre: ትግረ, romanized: tigre and Tigre: ትግሬ, romanized: tigrē) are an ethnic group indigenous to Eritrea. They mainly inhabit the lowlands and northern highlands of Eritrea, with a small population in Sudan.
- ^ "Africa :: Eritrea — The World Factbook – Central Intelligence Agency". www.cia.gov. 18 July 2022.
- ^ Skutsch, Carl (2013-11-07). Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities. Routledge. pp. 1200–1201. ISBN 978-1-135-19388-1.
- ^ Yakan, Muḥammad Zuhdī (1999). Almanac of African peoples & nations. Transaction. p. 667. ISBN 978-1-56000-433-2.
- ^ Joireman, Sandra F. (1997). Institutional Change in the Horn of Africa: The Allocation of Property Rights and Implications for Development. Universal-Publishers. p. 1. ISBN 978-1581120004.