^根据Ethnologue在2005年的纪录,当时蒂格里亞語在所有国家的语言人口合共445万人:当中320万在埃塞俄比亚,120万在厄立特里亚,1万貝塔以色列在以色列(余下的15,000人未知)[1] (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) The Tigrinya ethnic group, almost entirely Tigrinya speaking[來源請求], is estimated at 3.3 million by Ethnologue, whereas other estimates indicate 4.3 million in Ethiopia (CSA 2005 National Statistics互联网档案馆的存檔,存档日期2006-11-23., Table B.3.), 2.4 million in Eritrea (July 2006).[2] (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
^Ministry of Information (1944) The First to be Freed - The record of British military administration in Eritrea and Somalia, 1941-1943. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office.
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Amanuel Sahle (1998) Säwasäsǝw Tǝgrǝñña bǝsäfiḥ. Lawrencevill, NJ, USA: Red Sea Press. ISBN 1-56902-096-5
Rehman, Abdel. English Tigrigna Dictionary: A Dictionary of the Tigrinya Language: (Asmara) Simon Wallenberg Press. Introduction Pages to the Tigrinya Language ISBN 1-84356-006-2
Eritrean People's Liberation Front (1985) Dictionary, English-Tigrigna-Arabic. Rome: EPLF.