Country Info

Eritrea Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 4,078,136 people (69% of Eritrea) that can read or write at least one language.

7 Writing Systems used in Eritrea

Tigrinya (Ethiopic)

ti-ethi
language code
3,551,352
people

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
3,492,162
people

Tigre (Ethiopic)

tig-ethi
language code
1,065,405
people

Arabic (Arabic)

ar-arab
language code
290,027
people

Afar (Latin)

aa-latn
language code
213,081
people

Saho (Latin)

ssy-latn
language code
213,081
people

Blin (Ethiopic)

byn-ethi
language code
76,945
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR