Birifor language
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| Birifor | |
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| Native to | Burkina Faso, Ghana |
| Ethnicity | Birifor |
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Native speakers
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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[edit]
- ^ Malba Birifor (Burkina) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Southern Birifor (Ghana) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Birifor". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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