Tigre (people)
The Tigre ( Italian Tigrè or Tigré ) are an ethnic group in Eritrea . Tigre make up 30 to 40 percent of the population there. They are not to be confused with the Tigrinya .
Their language is also called Tigre and, like Tigrinya, belongs to the Semitic languages . It is written with the Ethiopian script , but also with the Arabic script.
The Tigre inhabit the northern highlands and the western lowlands of Eritrea, as well as the south of the neighboring Sudanese state of al-Bahr al-ahmar . The great majority of them profess Sunni Islam , which, like in neighboring Sudan, contains popular religious beliefs . Some Tigre are followers of the Sufi order of the Khatmiyya .
Tigre live mainly as farmers in small villages in round houses or practice semi-nomadic cattle breeding.
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- ↑ Werner Ende, Udo Steinbach, Gundula Krüger: Islam in the Present. CH Beck, Munich 2005, p. 464