Lingua e storia in Africa: considerazioni sul caso del tigrino (Eritrea ed Etiopia)

Tigrinya (Təgrəñña) is a Semitic language spoken in Eritrea and in the Ethiopian regional state of Tigray (Təgray) by about seven million people. In Eritrea it is also working and school language and the medium of a rich literature. Here, one can find a brief discussion of the main issues concerning the history of language and literature, as well as the development prospects of an idiom used in a highly troubled African territory