Birifor language

Birifor is a pair of Gur languages of Burkina Faso (Northern Birifor) and Ghana (Southern Birifor). There are a few thousand speakers of both varieties, which are not mutually intelligible, in Ivory Coast.

Birifor
Native toBurkina Faso, Ghana
EthnicityBirifor
Native speakers
(240,000 cited 1993–2003)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
bfo  Malba Birifor (Burkina)
biv  Southern Birifor (Ghana)
Glottologbiri1257[2]

References

  1. Malba Birifor (Burkina) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Southern Birifor (Ghana) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Birifor". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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