Birifor language

Birifor language
Birifor
Spoken in Burkina Faso, Ghana
Ethnicity Birifor
Native speakers ca. 240,000  (1993–2003)
Language family
Niger–Congo
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Gur
      • Northern
        • Oti–Volta
          • Moré–Dagbani
            • Moré
              • Dagaare–Birifor
                • Birifor
Language codes
ISO 639-3 either:
bfo – Malba Birifor (Burkina)
biv – Southern Birifor (Ghana)

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.



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