Easy Tigrinya Typing

• Typing romanised English words in above textarea will be converted into Tigrinya.
  
  

  For instance:
  Typing "selam" will be converted into "ሰላም".
  Typing "kemey hadirka?" will be converted into "ከመይ ሓዲርካ?".
  Typing "yeqeniyeley" will be converted into "የቐንየለይ".

• Use backspace or click on any words to get more choices on a dropdown menu.
• Press (Ctrl + G) together to toggle (switch) between English and Tigrinya language.
• Once you have finished typing in Tigrinya you can also email it to anyone, including yourself.
• To post the content in Tigrinya on Facebook, Twitter, or format it on a text editor such as Word Document - simply copy and paste.
• Auto recovery - In case of sudden crash of the browser, our system recovers the store text from your computer.
• Copy or download transliterated Tigrinya text on your computer.
• This Tigrinya transliteration is FREE. We don't charge a Rial, Cent, Penny or Rupee.

Tigrinya is a Semitic language spoken in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia and in central Eritrea^[1], where it is one of the two main languages of Eritrea^[1]. It serves as a lingua franca in Eritrea, where approximately half the population speaks it as a first language, and it is the fourth most widely spoken language in Ethiopia.

Tigrinya is spoken by approximately 6-9 million speakers worldwide, with significant populations in Eritrea (around 2.5-3.2 million native speakers), Ethiopia (approximately 4.3 million speakers according to the 2007 census^[2], with Tigrinya being the primary language for over 95% of the population in Tigray^[2]), and diaspora communities in Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Europe, and North America. As a Semitic language from the South Semitic branch, it shares linguistic roots with Arabic, Hebrew, and Amharic.

Tigrinya is written in the Ge'ez script (also called Ethiopic script), which flows from Left to Right^[3]. This ancient script is an abugida (alphasyllabary) system^[4], where each character represents a consonant-vowel combination^[4] rather than individual letters. The Ge'ez script has a two-thousand year history in the East African highlands^[5] and morphed into an alphasyllabary by the 4th century^[5], when the original consonant graphemes gained inherent vowel sounds.

• Script Type: Abugida (alphasyllabary) - each character represents a consonant + vowel combination
• Base Consonants: 32 basic consonant characters
• Vowel Orders: 7 vowel modifications for each consonant (ə, u, i, a, e, ɨ, o) creating 224+ syllabic characters
• Sample Characters: ሀ (hä), ለ (lə), ሐ (ḥä), መ (mä), ረ (rä), ሰ (sä), ሸ (šä), ቀ (qä), በ (bä), ተ (tä), ነ (nä), ከ (kä), ወ (wä), ዘ (zä), የ (yä), ደ (dä), ገ (gä), ጠ (ṭä), ጸ (ṣä), ፀ (ṣ'ä), ፈ (fä), ፐ (pä)
• Punctuation: ፡ (word separator), ። (full stop), ፣ (comma), ፤ (semicolon), ፥ (colon), ፦ (preface colon)
• Numbers in Tigrinya (Ge'ez Numerals): ፩ (1), ፪ (2), ፫ (3), ፬ (4), ፭ (5), ፮ (6), ፯ (7), ፰ (8), ፱ (9), ፲ (10), ፻ (100)
• Historical Development: The development of the Ge'ez script is closely tied to Ethiopia's Christianization in the fourth century C.E., when manuscripts adopted a distinct writing style
• Unique Characteristic: The Ge'ez script is shared with Amharic and other Ethiopian Semitic languages, but Tigrinya has developed unique orthographic conventions and additional characters to represent sounds specific to the language