Type Tigrinya (ትግርኛ) in Ge'ez (Ethiopic) and get the instant romanized Latin script version — plus an English translation. No button, no wait.
Ge'ez (Ethiopic) (Original)
ሰላም, ከመይ ኣለኻ?
Romanized (Latin script)
Selam, kemey alekha?
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Tigrinya is the official language of Eritrea and is widely spoken in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. Like Amharic, it uses the ancient Ge'ez script. Tigrinya has the largest number of speakers of any Semitic language that uses the Ge'ez script.
Eritrean diaspora communities worldwide, journalists covering the Horn of Africa, humanitarian workers in Eritrea and Tigray, researchers of Semitic languages, and East Africa regional specialists.
Tigrinya is spoken by 10M+ people, primarily in East Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia). It uses the Ge'ez (Ethiopic) writing system, which is written left to right.
Romanization (also called transliteration) converts Ge'ez (Ethiopic) characters to their equivalent Latin (Roman) letter representations. This allows speakers of Latin-script languages to read and pronounce Tigrinya text without knowing the Ge'ez (Ethiopic) script.
This tool uses Google's neural romanization engine to convert Tigrinya text to Latin script in real time. The romanization follows standard transliteration conventions and is updated automatically 800ms after you stop typing — no button click required.