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14-554: Bilen may refer to: Bilen people Bilen language Bilen (surname) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bilen . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bilen&oldid=932724665 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

28-562: Is also listed as an equivalent name without preference. In the English list of ISO 639-2, Blin is listed in first position in both English and French lists, when Bilin is listed as an alternate name in the English list, and Bilen is the alternate name in the French list. The Ethnologue report lists Bilen as the preferred name, but also Bogo, Bogos, Bilayn, Bilin, Balen, Beleni, Belen, Bilein, Bileno, North Agaw as alternative names. It

42-642: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Language and nationality disambiguation pages Bilen people According to a 2006 estimate, the total population of the Bilen was around 91,000. The Bilens comprise around two percent of the population of Eritrea. The vast majority of the Bilen live in Eritrea but some also live in Ethiopia and Djibouti . Tradition establishes an apparent connection between

56-441: Is not clear if Bilen has tone. It may have pitch accent (Fallon 2004) as prominent syllables always have a high tone, but not all words have such a syllable. Note: /tʃ/ is found in loans, and the status of /ʔ/ as a phoneme is uncertain. /r/ is typically realised as a tap when it is medial and a trill when it is in final position. Fallon (2001, 2004) notes intervocalic lenition , such as /b/ → [β] ; syncope , as in

70-565: The Bilen language as a mother tongue, which belongs to the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Many also speak other Afro-Asiatic languages such as Tigre and Tigrinya . In addition, younger Bilen often employ Arabic words and expressions in their everyday speech. Bilen language The Bilen language ( ብሊና b(ɨ)lina or ብሊን b(ɨ)lin ) is spoken by

84-453: The Bilen people in and around the city of Keren in Eritrea . It is the only Agaw (Central Cushitic) language spoken in Eritrea . It is spoken by about 72,000 people. "Blin" is the English spelling preferred by native speakers, but Bilin and Bilen are also commonly used. Bilin is the reference name arbitrarily used in the current initial English editions of ISO 639-3, but Blin

98-477: The Bilen are Muslim while the rest are Christians. Muslim adherents mainly inhabit rural areas and have intermingled with the adjacent Tigre , while Christian Bilen tend to reside in urban areas and have intermingled with the Tigrinya People (Biher-Tigrinya). Sunni Islam is followed by half of the Bilen, with the other half adhering to Christianity of various denominations. The religious diversity of

112-646: The Bilen has aided the peaceful coexistence among them with little conflict arising due to religious differences. The Bilen were originally Coptic Christians . In the mid to late 19th century during the Egyptian invasion of the Keren highlands (1860-1876) the Bet Tawqe clan accepted Islam, adopting the faith of their new overlords. The Bet Tarqe clan of the Bilen adopted Catholicism at the hands of French missionaries who offered to protect them from Beni-Amer raids in

126-615: The Eritrean Bilen and the Ethiopian Agaw which can be seen in linguistic similarities between Agaw and Bilen. The presence of many identical place names in the areas around Lasta and Bogos in central Eritrea further alludes to some historical connection between the two groups. According to local oral tradition, the Bilen lived on the Eritrean plateau from Lasta around the 6th or 7th century when Queen Ben Hammawiya invaded

140-589: The Lasta province from the North. They then also partially subdued the prior Tigre population. A second wave of migration may have occurred according to historians during the fall of the Zagwe dynasty in 1270. The Bilen first appear in historical records from the 14th century onwards. Some of The Bilen/Agaw ruled Eritrea and Ethiopia for 300 years. The Bilen practice both Islam and Christianity . Around two-thirds of

154-594: The additional symbols required to write Bilen with this script are in the "Ethiopic Extended" Unicode range rather than the "Ethiopic" range. In 1985 the Eritrean People's Liberation Front decided to use the Latin script for Bilen and all other non-Semitic languages in Eritrea . This was largely a political decision: the Geʽez script is associated with Christianity because of its liturgical use . The Latin alphabet

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168-486: The area during the second half of the 19th century. There are a few mission-converted Protestants and few Bilen have retained their old Coptic Orthodox beliefs. The traditional livelihood of most Bilen consisted of pastoralism . However, the recent migration of other groups into the area resulted in the Bilens taking up other occupations including farming. Most modern Bilen are animal herders and farmers. The Bilen speak

182-410: The name of the language, /bɨlín/ → [blín] ; debuccalization with secondary articulation preserved, as in /dérekʷʼa/ → [dɛ́rɛʔʷa] 'mud for bricks'. Intriguingly, the ejectives have voiced allophones, which according to Fallon (2004) "provides an important empirical precedent" for one of the more criticized aspects of the glottalic theory of Indo-European. For example, A writing system for Bilen

196-449: Was first developed by missionaries who used the Geʽez abugida and the first text was published in 1882. Although the Geʽez script is usually used for Semitic languages , the phonemes of Bilen are very similar (7 vowels, labiovelar and ejective consonants). The script therefore requires only a slight modification (the addition of consonants for ŋ and ŋʷ ) to make it suitable for Bilen. Some of

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