Birifor language

Birifor
Birifor
Native to	Burkina Faso, Ghana
Ethnicity	Birifor
Native speakers	(240,000 cited 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)
Glottolog	biri1257

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.

Writing system[]

Birifor alphabet ^[2]
a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o	p	r	s	t	u	v	w	y	ŋ	ɔ	ɛ	ɩ	ʊ

References[]

^ Malba Birifor (Burkina) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Southern Birifor (Ghana) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
^ "Southern Birifor written with Latin script biv-Latn". ScriptSource. Retrieved 15 June 2021.

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[e18-1] Malba Birifor (Burkina) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Southern Birifor (Ghana) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[2] "Southern Birifor written with Latin script biv-Latn". ScriptSource. Retrieved 15 June 2021.

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