Wiktionary:About Tigrinya

Tigrinya is an Ethiopian Semitic language native to Eritrea and Ethiopia. This article contains guidelines for creating and maintaining Wiktionary entries in Tigrinya, beyond the general guidelines of Entry layout.

Creating Tigrinya entries
Tigrinya is considered a limited-documentation language on Wiktionary, so a single attestation of a word is considered sufficient for inclusion under Wiktionary's criteria for inclusion.

Entries should be created using the Ethiopic script, under their standard spelling. Alternative spellings should use the template to link to their standard spelling, e.g.  and its alternative spelling.

The de facto convention is to use Eritrean spellings as the standard and for Ethiopian spellings to be treated as alternative spellings, e.g. Eritrean vs. Ethiopian  or.

Headers
Each entry must contain at least two headers ==Tigrinya== and ===POS===, where "POS" is replaced by the word's part of speech (see WT:POS for possible POS values). For example, a simple entry for a noun would contain: (used to produce a horizontal line when not the first language.) ==Tigrinya== ===Noun===    (the POS header)

When multiple languages occur on the same page, they are ordered alphabetically and separated by a horizontal bar (as shown above). For Tigrinya this sometimes occurs with other languages written in the Ethiopic script, such as Ge'ez and Amharic.

A more detailed entry could contain any of the following headers, preferably in the given order:

==Tigrinya== ===Alternative forms=== ===Etymology=== ===Pronunciation=== ===Noun===      (the POS header) ====Usage notes==== ====Conjugation==== ====Synonyms==== ====Antonyms==== ====Derived terms==== ====Related terms==== ===Further reading=== ===References===

See Entry layout for more detailed explanations of these headers.

Headword-line templates
A Tigrinya headword-line such as should be inserted under the POS header. These will automatically display the word and its transliteration, and parameters can be added to specify gender, plural forms, etc.

Lemmas should use the Tigrinya-specific headword-line templates, but for non-lemma forms (e.g. plural nouns) use the template with arguments such as  or.

Lemmas and inflected forms
For nouns and adjectives, the masculine singular form is considered the lemma form where applicable. Adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions and interjections are usually invariable.

For verbs the 3ms perfect form is considered the lemma form, rather than the infinitive. So for example is tagged as a lemma and  as an inflected form.

Non-lemma entries should use the appropriate variant of the template (see Category:Form-of templates) to link to the entry for the lemma form, see Category:French headword-line templates. For example at :

Transliterations
Templates will generate transliteration for text in Ge'ez script using Module:Ethi-translit, but manual transliteration should be added with the parameter tr when the word contains a geminate consonant since this is not indicated in the script. For example, contains a geminate /ɲ/, so the automatically generated transliteration *təgrña would be incorrect.

Browsing entries
You can browse all the existing Tigrinya entries in the categories:
 * Category:Tigrinya lemmas
 * Category:Tigrinya non-lemma forms