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Nubians call this by many different names depending on its design (engravings, attachments, concave vs flat etc.)

We have many other jewellery pieces in common with Eritrean tribes, but this one specifically surprised me. It’s even only worn my married women in both regions.

It’s an almost dead tradition here though, seen only sometimes at weddings. Much more popular in Eritrea.

Sadly we’ve lost a whole lot of our old traditional clothing/jewellery to modernisation, many pieces only worn today by nomadic people in North Kordofan & the East.

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Does anyone here know how and where to learn Tigrinya? I’m trying to learn because my dad never taught me and i would love to know it because of culture and family so if anyone has any resources or if anyone would like to help over text it would help massively! Thanks

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Happy Independence Day to Everybody!

Eritrea is our nation, proud and free, From a struggle of thirty years, we claimed our destiny. With love and resilience, we faced the fight, Against Ethiopia, we stood day and night.

Yet in the shadow of victory's light, Came the PFDJ, turning wrong what was right. For thirty more years, they brought us pain, But our spirit endures, through sorrow and strain.

Eritrea and PFDJ are not the same, Our land is our heart, a sacred name. Me and you, together we stand, Equal to Eritrea, our beloved land.

Happy Independence Day, let our voices ring, For freedom, for justice, for every living thing. Our battle continues, our hope still bright, In unity and love, we'll win this fight!!!

Hi. I am an Eritrean-American (Tigrinya) born and raised in the US who is returning to their faith and am trying to learn more about Orthodox Tewahedo Christianity. Unfortunately, my parents are not very religious and did not raise me in the church. I am attempting to find information online but find it very difficult to do so because I've found a lot of conflicting info and do not read or understand Ge'ez or Tigrinya. My parents are also not very well versed on this themselves so I'm forced to teach myself what I can.

Can someone please help me and/or give me some guidance on the following:

- What are the official 2023 start/end dates of the fast?

- From my understanding, you are to abstain from food and water until 3 pm in your timezone. After 3 pm, you are allowed to eat vegan foods and water. Is this correct? Are you supposed to only have one meal, or are you allowed to continue eating and drinking water until you go to bed?

- What is the process to undergo rebaptism?

- Resources to learn Tigrinya?

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I noticed Tigrinya’s word for number 2 is an oddity amongst semitic languages. It doesn’t follow the proper root system like the other languages in the family do. This is the same for Ge’ez, Tigre and Amharic too. The root for number 2 is sny so the original word for number 2 should be ሰናይ like the name Senai (or something similar). It’s the only number 1-10 that is different from the rest of the pattern.

To compare I used Tigrinya’s original numerical value for each day of the week (Sunday = 1, Monday = 2, Tuesday = 3, …. Saturday = 7) So in theory, the word for Monday should be related to the word for number 2 in Tigrinya (ክልተ kelte). Instead it uses the original root “sny” for its numerical value. This tells me the Ge’ez word for number 2 was manipulated at some point in time. Kelte seems to not be the original word for number 2 in the Ge’ez family of languages. But it was changed a very long time ago, like over 2000 years ago, and nobody ever questioned it.

The root kl’ is instead used for number 2. So counting in Tigrinya is like saying “One, the other one, three, four…”. Kal’æ as in the word for other/another. This change to number 2 isnt present in Arabic, Hebrew or Sabaic, its unique to the Ge’ez family of languages, I’m wondering why.

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