Official Languages

Languages spoken here

Afar (secondary) · Hijazi Arabic (secondary) · Levantine Arabic (secondary) · Tigre (secondary) · Tigrinya (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Eritrea

Peoples

Largest first.

People	Population	Language	Religion
Tigray, Tigrinya	1576000	Tigrigna	Christianity
Tigre, Eritrean	753000	Tigre	Islam
Afar	291000	Afar	Islam
Beja, Beni Amer	289000	Tigre	Islam
Saho, Irob	143000	Saho	Islam
Kunama	132000	Kunama	Ethnic Religions
Bilen	119000	Bilen	Christianity
Beja, Hadendoa	87000	Bedawiyet	Islam
Nara, Nialetic	58000	Nara	Islam
Rashaida	53000	Arabic, Hijazi	Islam
Arab, Yemeni	37000	Arabic, Ta'izzi-Adeni	Islam
Arab, Sudanese	33000	Arabic, Sudanese	Islam
Deaf	20000	Language unknown	Unknown
Arab, Palestinian	15000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Dahalik	3000	Dahalik	Islam

Languages

14 languages recorded here.

Afar

Arabic, Hijazi

Arabic, Levantine

Arabic, Sudanese

Arabic, Ta'izzi-Adeni

Bedawiyet

Bilen

Dahalik

Kunama

Language unknown

Nara

Saho

Tigre

Tigrigna

All catalogue fields

155 fields recorded

rog3: ER
iso3: ERI
iso2: ER
ctry: Eritrea
poplpeoples: 3610000
cntpeoples: 15
cntpeopleslr: 10
poplpeopleslr: 1624000
jpscalectry: 4
rol3officiallanguage: tir
officiallang: Tigrigna
rlg3primary: 6
religionprimary: Islam
percentchristianity: 45.958771265483
percentevangelical: 2.4054757942112
c_10_40window: Y
rog2: AFR
continent: Africa
regioncode: 7
regionname: Africa, East and Southern
workersneeded: 35
harvest_rog3: ER
harvest_iso3: ERI
harvest_iso2: ER
harvest_owcountrycode: ERIT
harvest_ethnologuecountrycode: ER
harvest_countrynumber: 68
harvest_ctry: Eritrea
harvest_ctryshort: Eritrea
harvest_countrynamechinese: 厄立特里亚
harvest_countrynamechineseshort: 厄立特里亚
harvest_countrynamedutch: Eritrea
harvest_countrynamefrench: Érythrée
harvest_countrynamefrenchshort: Érythrée
harvest_countrynamegerman: Eritrea
harvest_countrynamegermanshort: Eritrea
harvest_countrynameindonesian: Eritrea
harvest_countrynameindonesianshort: Eritrea
harvest_countrynameitalian: Eritrea
harvest_countrynameitalianshort: Eritrea
harvest_countrynamekorean: 에리트레아
harvest_countrynamekoreanshort: 에리트레아
harvest_countrynamenorwegian: Eritrea
harvest_countrynamenorwegianshort: Eritrea
harvest_countrynameportuguese: Eritreia
harvest_countrynameportugueseshort: Eritreia
harvest_countrynamerussian: Эритрея
harvest_countrynamerussianshort: Эритрея
harvest_countrynamespanish: Eritrea
harvest_countrynamespanishshort: Eritrea
harvest_countrynamevietnamese: Eritrea
harvest_countrynamevietnameseshort: Eritrea
harvest_chineseconcatenationprefix: 在
harvest_frenchconcatenationprefix: d'
harvest_germanconcatenationprefix: in
harvest_indonesianconcatenationprefix: di
harvest_italianconcatenationprefix: -
harvest_koreanconcatenationprefix: 의
harvest_norwegianconcatenationprefix: i
harvest_portugueseconcatenationprefix: na
harvest_russianconcatenationprefix: B
harvest_spanishconcatenationprefix: en
harvest_vietnameseconcatenationprefix: ở
harvest_ethnologuemapexists: Y
harvest_rog2: AFR
harvest_regioncode2414: 1
harvest_regioncode: 7
harvest_unsr: 014
harvest_worldabc: B
harvest_maniregioncode: EH
harvest_capital: Asmara
harvest_population: 3607000
harvest_populationsource: UN Country Population (2025)
harvest_prayercastvideo: https://prayercast.com/eritrea.html
harvest_prayercastvimeourl: 44458554
harvest_waldnerguide: prayer-guide-dj+er.pdf
harvest_persecutionrankingod: 5
harvest_persecutionrankingodlink: https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/persecution/countries/eritrea
harvest_jpscale: 4
harvest_c_10_40window: Y
harvest_c_10_40windoworiginal: Y
harvest_biblerestrictionsrank: 6
harvest_bibleshortagerank: 35
harvest_bibleaccessurl: https://www.bibleaccesslist.org/profiles/ER_2025_profile.pdf
harvest_owpctevang: 2.1
harvest_owpctcharismatic: 1.2120515
harvest_owevangelicalgrowthrate: 4.5999999
harvest_owcountrypage: eritrea
harvest_literacyrate: 77
harvest_literacysource: Ethnologue
harvest_percenturbanized: 40
harvest_rol3officiallanguage: tir
harvest_rol3secondarylanguage: eng
harvest_rlg3primary: 6
harvest_pctanimist: 0.5600000000000001
harvest_pctbahai: 0
harvest_pctbuddhism: 0
harvest_pctchinese: 0
harvest_pcthindu: 0
harvest_pctislam: 50.26
harvest_pctsikh: 0
harvest_pctjudaism: 0
harvest_pctnonreligious: 1.87
harvest_pctother: 0
harvest_pctchristian: 47.31
harvest_pctchristianprotestant: 1.39
harvest_pctchristianindependent: 0.31
harvest_pctchristiananglican: 0
harvest_pctchristianromancatholic: 3.430000000000001
harvest_pctchristianorthodoxcatholic: 41.87
harvest_pctchristianmarginal: 0.01
harvest_pctchristianunaffiliated: 0.3
harvest_pctchristiandoublyprofessing: 0
harvest_pctchristianother: 0
harvest_pctchristianextra: 0
harvest_rop1: A004
harvest_hdiyear: 2015
harvest_hdivalue: 0.42
harvest_hdirank: 179
harvest_internetusers: 1.2
harvest_flashmapzoom: 717
harvest_flashmapzoomx: -367
harvest_flashmapzoomy: -316
harvest_googlemapzoom: 6
harvest_googlemaplat: 15
harvest_googlemaplng: 39
harvest_ctrylatitude: 15.179384
harvest_ctrylongitude: 39.782334
harvest_securitylevel: 2
harvest_statedeptreligiousfreedom: https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/eritrea/
harvest_provincesdisplayable: Y
harvest_adm1label: Provinces
harvest_wcdsubregioncode: 101
harvest_poplgrowthrate: 2.428998505231689
harvest_godreportsurl: http://blog.godreports.com/country/?countrycode=er&joshua=er
harvest_datareportalurl: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-eritrea
harvest_internetusage: 1
harvest_internetusagesourceyear: 2017
harvest_pray1040url: https://pray1040.com/pray-for-djibouti/
harvest_voiceofmartyrsurl: https://www.persecution.com/globalprayerguide/eritrea/
harvest_areasquaremiles: 45405
harvest_populationpersquaremile: 99
harvest_countryphonecode: 291
harvest_wincountryprofile: http://win1040.com/page.php?id=535
harvest_owpctchristian1993: 32.5
harvest_owpctevangelical1993: 1.5
harvest_owpctchristian2001: 47.43
harvest_owpctevangelical2001: 1.7
harvest_stonyground: Y
harvest_religiondatayear: 2010
harvest_internetctrycode: .er
harvest_worldfactbookurl: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/eritrea
harvest_source: pjj
harvest_editname: BM
harvest_editdate: 09/12/02 00:00:00