Editing Tigrinya language (section)

== Speakers==
There is no general name for the people who speak Tigrinya. In Eritrea, Tigrinya speakers are officially known as the {{transliteration|ti|Bəher-Təgrəñña}} ({{gloss|nation of Tigrinya speakers}}) or [[Tigrinya people]]. In Ethiopia, a [[Tigrayan]], that is a native of [[Tigray Region|Tigray]], who also speaks the Tigrinya language, is referred to in Tigrinya as {{transliteration|ti|təgraway}} (male), {{transliteration|ti|təgrawäyti}} (female), {{transliteration|ti|tägaru}} (plural). Bəher roughly means "nation" in the ethnic sense of the word in Tigrinya, [[Tigre language|Tigre]], Amharic and Ge'ez. The [[Jeberti people|Jeberti]] in Eritrea also speak Tigrinya.

Tigrinya is the most widely spoken language in Eritrea (see [[Demographics of Eritrea]]), and the fourth most spoken language in Ethiopia after [[Amharic]], [[Oromo language|Oromo]], and [[Somali language|Somali]]. It is also spoken by large immigrant communities around the world, in countries including [[Sudan]], [[Saudi Arabia]], Israel, Denmark, Germany, Uganda, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. In Australia, Tigrinya is one of the languages broadcast on public radio via the multicultural [[Special Broadcasting Service]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/language/tigrinya/ti |script-title=ti:ኤስ ቢ ኤስ ትግርኛ |title={{transliteration|ti|ʾEs Bi ʾEs Təgrəñña}} |website=SBS Your Language}}</ref>

Tigrinya dialects differ phonetically, lexically, and grammatically.<ref name="leslau">{{cite book |last=Leslau |first=Wolf |year=1941 |title=Documents Tigrigna (Éthiopien Septentrional): Grammaire et Textes |location=Paris |publisher=Librairie C. Klincksieck}}</ref> No dialect appears to be accepted as a standard. Even though the most spread and used in, for example books, movies and news is the Asmara dialect.