?ntay 'what?' is written ????, literally ?-n?-ta-y?.

Since some of the distinctions that were apparently made in Ge'ez have been lost in Tigrinya, there are two rows of symbols each for the consonants , , and . In Eritrea, for ~~and , at least, one of these has fallen into disuse in Tigrinya and is now considered old-fashioned. These less-used series are shown with a dark gray background in the chart.~~

The orthography does not mark gemination, so the pair of words qärräbä 'he approached',

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