Birifor language

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.

Birifor
Native toBurkina Faso, Ghana
EthnicityBirifor
Native speakers
(240,000 cited 1993–2003)[1]
Niger–Congo?
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
bfo  Malba Birifor (Burkina)
biv  Southern Birifor (Ghana)
Glottologbiri1257

Writing system

Birifor alphabet [2]
abcde fghij klmno prstu vwyŋɔ ɛɩʊ

References

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


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