Birifor language

Birifor
Native to Burkina Faso, Ghana
Ethnicity Birifor
Native speakers
240,000 (1993–2003)[1]
Niger–Congo
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

  1. Malba Birifor (Burkina) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Southern Birifor (Ghana) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. 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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