Tigre Studies in the 21st Century

这本出版物是关于老虎人和他们同名的语言。Tigre是第三大埃塞俄比亚-闪米特语言（仅次于阿姆哈拉语和Tigrinya语），也是闪米特语系的第五大语言，包括阿拉伯语和现代希伯来语。厄立特里亚北部、西部和东部低地以及苏丹邻近地区的广大地区都说这种语言。就持续提供教学课程以及由此产生的对Tigre文化和语言的长期研究而言，柏林自由大学Universität闪米特语和阿拉伯语研究部在世界上没有任何地方可以与之相提并论。因此，似乎应该利用一次国际会议，将危机地区的主要学者与欧洲学者聚集在一起，以促进对虎人语言和文化的未来研究。在过去的十年里，虎语已经发展成为一种完全成熟的语言，但迄今为止，闪族研究学者，以及文化、社会研究和人文学科中更注重地域的学者都没有意识到这一点。考虑到虎语惊人的发展，我们决定把我们的会议记录分成两部分：一部分用于发展虎语和语言学的基础研究，第二部分建立在此基础上，用于处理历史和文化方向的贡献，以实现对危机地区-非洲之角存在的大部分未知的社会结构的更深层次的理解。鉴于这一切，这里的公众以及厄立特里亚/苏丹/埃及的公众注意到由此产生的新研究的冲动是非常重要的。

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.