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For other uses please see Tigre (disambiguation)Tigre (Ge’ez: ትግረ tigre or ትግሬ tigrē) better known in Eritrea by its autonym Tigrayit (Ge’ez: ትግራይት) and also known by speakers in Sudan as Xasa (Arabic: الخاصية ḫāṣiyah) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Northeast Africa. It belongs to the North Ethiopic subdivision of the family’s South Semitic branch and is primarily spoken by the Tigre people in Eritrea.