Birifor language
Birifor | |
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Native to | Burkina Faso, Ghana |
Ethnicity | Birifor |
Native speakers | 240,000 (1993–2003)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
Either: bfo – Malba Birifor (Burkina) biv – Southern Birifor (Ghana) |
Glottolog |
biri1257 [2] |
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.
References
- ↑ Malba Birifor (Burkina) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Southern Birifor (Ghana) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Birifor". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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