Tigre (Ge'ez: ትግረ tigre or ትግሬ tigrē), better known in Eritrea by its autonym Tigrayit (Ge'ez: ትግራይት), and also known by speakers in Sudan as Xasa (Arabic: الخاصية‎ ḫāṣiyah), is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Northeast Africa. It belongs to the North Ethiopic subdivision of the family's South Semitic branch, and is primarily spoken by the Tigre people in Eritrea.