Birifor language
Birifor | |
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Native to | Burkina Faso, Ghana |
Ethnicity | Birifor |
Native speakers | (240,000 cited 1993–2003)[1] |
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[]
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.
Categories:
- Oti–Volta languages
- Languages of Burkina Faso
- Languages of Ghana
- Gur language stubs