Birifor (language)
| Birifor | ||
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Spoken in |
Ghana , Ivory Coast | |
| speaker | approximately 129,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | one of the national languages of Ghana | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
nic |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Birifor is a language of Ghana and has around 125,000 speakers (2003) in the north-western corner of the country. It is spoken as the mother tongue of the Birifor ethnic group .
It is still used by around 4,000 speakers in the northeast of the Ivory Coast . Alternative names are Birifo, Ghana Birifor. Birifor counts as an independent language next to Wali , Daagri and Malba-Birifor in Burkina Faso .