Tigre Studies in the 21st Century

这本出版物是关于虎人及其同名语言的。泰格尔语是第三大以硫-闪族语言(仅次于阿姆哈拉语和提格里尼亚语)，也是包括阿拉伯语和现代希伯来语在内的闪族语言中的第五大语言。在厄立特里亚北部、西部和东部低地以及苏丹邻近地区的大片地区都讲这种语言。就持续提供教学课程以及由此产生的对猛虎文化和语言的长期研究而言，柏林自由大学的闪族和阿拉伯语研究系在世界上是无与伦比的。因此，利用一次国际会议，将危机地区的知名学者和欧洲学者聚集在一起，促进今后对猛虎民族语言和文化的研究似乎是合适的。过去十年，猛虎语言已经发展成为一种成熟的语言，这一事实迄今没有得到犹太研究学者的赞赏，也没有得到文化和社会研究以及人文科学领域中更具地区性的学者的赞赏。考虑到虎牌S的惊人发展，我们决定将会议记录分为两部分：一部分保留给不断发展的虎牌语言和语言学的基础研究，第二部分在此基础上，处理历史和文化取向的贡献，以更深入地了解危机地区存在的基本上不为人知的社会结构--非洲之角。有鉴于此，非常重要的是，这里以及厄立特里亚/苏丹/埃及的普通公众注意到由此产生的进行新研究的冲动。

This publication concerns the Tigre people and their language which bears the same name. Tigre is the third-largest Ethio-Semitic language (after Amharic and Tigrinya), and the fifth-largest within the Semitic language family with Arabic and Modern Hebrew included. It is spoken over a wide area in the Northern, Western and Eastern lowlands of Eritrea as well as in the adjacent parts of Sudan. As far as continously offering teaching courses is concerned and the ongoing long term research that springs from it into the culture and language of the Tigre, the Department for Semitic and Arabic Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin has no equal anywhere in the world. It seemed therefore appropriate to promote future research into the language and culture of the Tigre people by using an international conference to bring together leading scholars from that crisis region with European scholars.The fact that in the last decade Tigre has developed into a fully-fledged language has so far not been appreciated by scholars of Semitic studies nor by the more regionally oriented scholars in cultural and social studies and the humanities. With Tigre¿s astonishing development in mind we decided to give our volume of the conference proceedings a two-part structure: one part reserved for the evolving developing fundamental research into Tigre language and linguistics and the second part, building on this, for dealing with the contributions of a historical and cultural orientation to achieve a deeper understanding of the largely unknown social structures existing in the crisis region - the Horn of Africa. In the light of all this it is of great importance that the general public here as well as in Eritrea/Sudan/Egypt take note of the impulses for new research flowing therefrom.