The Tigrinya people ብሄረ ትግርኛ/ትግርኛ, also invited as Tigrigna, are an ethnic institution indigenous to Eritrea. the Tigrinya people are the largest ethnic combine in Eritrea, accounting for approximately 55 percent of the country's population. There also survive sizable Tigrinya communities in the diaspora. They speak the Tigrinya language.
In Eritrea the Tigrinya people are quoted to as Biher-Tigrinya people or the "Kebessa" people, kebessa meaning Eritrean highlands. Both the Tigrinya & Tigre tribes in Eritrea are verykin to the ethnic group Tigrayans in Tigray, Ethiopia. all the Tigrinyas, Tigre, and Tigrayans peoples were supposedly from the same group until the 8th century, and dual-lane the Aksumite Kingdom before its demise.
These people grew apart in lexical, societal construction and dialect from around the 9th century. Tigrayans in Tigray abandoned the declining Kingdom of Aksum and the Tigrinya people built the kingdom of Medri Bahri in Eritrea by Bahre Negasi also known as Bahre Negash; "king of the sea" in English with its Capital in Debarwa, Seraye. Lately the Tigrinya in Akele Guzay refused to be governed by the kings of Mdre Bahri. The Agaw built the Zagwe Dynasty in Ethiopia by Morara Gebrekrstos of Hamassien.