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Nothing will be done until the effects of the dam are seen at the end of the day

True! There are some benefits of learning Tigrigna though like being able to communicate with some Eritreans as well as well as it being a good starter language if in the future someone decided to study Amharic, Ge'ez or Tigre etc.

Why Amharic???

Maybe you should, although resources for Tigrinya are lacking, you could learn basic phrases, numbers, alphabet, etc lol :-) And I heard because when he went to Jamaica the rain started again, something like that, I may be wrong though.

I see. The root k-t-b means 'to vaccinate' in our languages lol, and also to recruit. I wouldn't really say most people in Ethiopia would be aware of that theory. As most of the country is rural we really go by tradition and religion. Even in urban areas that notion would not be that known...

Does the root ص ح ف mean anything similar to 'write/books' too then? As that's what the letters in our alphabet correspond to in the word for write/writer/book etc. And I wouldn't say they believe in that but that's partly because we rarely talk about origin of language, rather origin of our...

Oh right, yes those are the basic ones, and no we don't consume pork anywhere. There are also many vegan ones too fit for our fasting. And hmmm, some words are similar but I wouldn't be able to figure that sentence out on it's own. Some words also sound the same but mean different things...

Yeah pretty much and yes I am. I don't really have a viewpoint on it but it doesn't bother me. The politics-obsessed do hate each other, a lot but I don't think the younger generation really hate each other, and definitely not the diaspora. And I am unfamiliar with them, an Eritrean would know...

Well they are 2 different languages but they use the same script. We do have an additional letter though in the Tigrinya script and some letters, even though written the same as Amharic are not pronounced the same as Amharic has lost some sounds over history. They are also not mutually...

Even Ethiopians, if Muslim will most likely have Arabic names, although sometimes surnames can be traditional ones. Otherwise our names either mean something in our language or are Biblical names. And those prefix's you see most our runners have, Welde/Gebre mean son of/servant of, respectively.

True, most are also just tribal languages so not much is known about them.

Only some Ethiopians/Eritreans speak the same language, Tigrinya, and they belong to a specific ethnic group. That ethnic group is the majority in Eritrea but not the majority in Ethiopia. Most Ethiopians speak Amharic and Oromo and you may get some of the older generation of Eritreans speak...

That is fine, most people do not know much about African languages, even I don't, there are too many and only some big ones.

We don't speak the same language lol

Thanks. I think our names for each letter are quite similar to Arabic too, with the exception of some letters.

Ethiopian, from Tigray to be specific. o_O

What languages can you speak and what are they like?:-) I speak Tigrinya as my first language (and Amharic as my second) and it is spoken by approximately 8M people. It differs a lot from many languages and has similar vocabulary to Amharic, and some things a bit similar to Arabic etc. too.

That I agree with. This dam has so far passed it’s estimated completion date so I’d imagine the filling will not be so quick too

There are loads:woot:. I could say the same back to you.... Everything we say is apparently propaganda. All it depends on is how fast we fill it, once it is full, flow returns to normal. It's all a matter of how fast the dam is filled, other than that, flow returns to normal after a dam is built.