Animals 1 /እንስሳታት

Tigrign has a set of phonemes, that is, there is a set of ejective consonants  and the usual seven-vowel system. The consonant /v/ occurs only in recent borrowing from European languages.

Fidelat Tigrigna ordered by shape are grouped into five categories to make it easiler to teach. The letters in a group follow similar rules and should make it easier for students to cover many letters at the same time. The set of the ejective consonants and the usual seven-vowel system and their classification in categories  and groups  are  given below:

In Tigrigna language “questions” can be made using at least more than two types.

Type 1: the first anticipate the answer “Yes-እወ” or “No ኣይኾነን” and is formed simply by using the question intonation; raising the pitch of your voice at the end of the sentences. This is in contrast to the simple statement intonation where the pitch drops towards the end of the sentence. Note that the order of the words is not altered in Tigrigna