So yeah, this is Tigrinya also spelled Tigrigna, a national language of Eritrea and Ethiopia — in fact tragically earlier this decade Ethiopia carried out genocidal actions against Tigrayans in the northern border region near Eritrea.
The Tigrinya language is like its Ethio-Semitic relative Amharic, with which it is often confused, a beautiful and overlooked language of a storied region of the world, so I think it is a really damn big shame that your first exposure to this language is Nazis trying to evade social media content filters. In fact I’m sure that’s one part of why these Nazis do it, that if you come to associate the Abugida with Nazis you’ll start to feel uncomfortable seeing that script in general, even when it is perfectly innocuous.
Now if you want to listen to Tigrinya music — which I would definitely recommend, especially if you commute by train — the magic word is ትግርኛ ሙዚቃ. The top result on YouTube is this bop.
Yo thanks thats really cool info, I will have to check out the music. It is really unfortunate that my first exposure to this language is nazis. I recognized it as an african language because I have recently been learning a lot about constructed languages in africa and found it odd that I’d see so many nazis using it
I mainly just like looking at the geometric structure of scripts so I couldn’t actually tell you a lot about them. Basically I get high and show my friends cool writing systems I like. Don’t know much about them except that a lot of the writing systems I have looked at in africa were purposefully made to preserve native african languages.
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So yeah, this is Tigrinya also spelled Tigrigna, a national language of Eritrea and Ethiopia — in fact tragically earlier this decade Ethiopia carried out genocidal actions against Tigrayans in the northern border region near Eritrea.
The Tigrinya language is like its Ethio-Semitic relative Amharic, with which it is often confused, a beautiful and overlooked language of a storied region of the world, so I think it is a really damn big shame that your first exposure to this language is Nazis trying to evade social media content filters. In fact I’m sure that’s one part of why these Nazis do it, that if you come to associate the Abugida with Nazis you’ll start to feel uncomfortable seeing that script in general, even when it is perfectly innocuous.
Now if you want to listen to Tigrinya music — which I would definitely recommend, especially if you commute by train — the magic word is ትግርኛ ሙዚቃ. The top result on YouTube is this bop.
Yo thanks thats really cool info, I will have to check out the music. It is really unfortunate that my first exposure to this language is nazis. I recognized it as an african language because I have recently been learning a lot about constructed languages in africa and found it odd that I’d see so many nazis using it
Conlangs in Africa? Please tell me more.
I mainly just like looking at the geometric structure of scripts so I couldn’t actually tell you a lot about them. Basically I get high and show my friends cool writing systems I like. Don’t know much about them except that a lot of the writing systems I have looked at in africa were purposefully made to preserve native african languages.
I’ve enjoyed scrolling through this and I specifically have liked the geometry of Ditema tas Dinoko, Gbékoun script, Luo script, and Mandombe script
Oh, so you mean like neographies is what I’d call them. I’ve heard a bit about these.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: