| In the border areas with Sudan, however, Kunama speakers know three or four languages, including Arabic, Kunama, and Tigre and Tigrinya. |
| Extinct as a vernacular language, Geʿez is the ancestor of the modern Tigrinya and Tigré languages of Eritrea and Ethiopia. |
| To the north of the Tigrinya speakers live people who speak the closely related language known as Tigre. |
| Television is available, with broadcasts three evenings a week in both Tigrinya and Arabic. |
| Tigrinya is a language whose sound system is quite exotic from an English speaker's point of view. |
| The Tigrinya language is one of two major indigenous languages in Eritrea. |
