Birifor language
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Name (Latin)
Birifor language
Other forms of name
Birifo language
Lober language
See Also From tracing topical name
Gur languages
See Also From tracing place name
Burkina Faso
Côte d'Ivoire
Ghana
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q34911
Library of congress:
sh 98003546
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: 95-236838: Kuch, L. The Phonologi of Birifor, 1993:p. 1 (Birifor live in the northwestern part of Ghana, and just over the border in Burkina Faso. Birifor is classed by Naden (1989) as belonging to the Oti-Volta group of the Central Gur language family. Northern Birifor, spoken promarily in Burkina Faso ... and Southern Birifor, spoken primarily in Ghana ...)
- Biebuyck, D. African ethnonyms, 1996:p. 52 (Birifor, Burkina Faso, Ghana, var. Lober. Note: Gur lang; one of the groups included in the collective term Dagara. There is some question as to whether the Lober are a subcategory or synonymous with the Birifor.)
- Fivaz, D. and P.E. Scott. Afr. langs., 1977:p. 23, under Central Gur (Birifor, var. Birifo, Lober; listed separately from Dagaari)
- Niger Congo langs., 1989:p. 145 (Birifor, Ghana and Burkina Faso; listed under Dagaari group of Oti-Volta langs. of Central Gur group)
- Ethnologue, 13th ed., 1996:p. 174, under Burkina Faso (Birifor, Malba var. Birifo, Malba-Birifor, Northern Birifor. Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, North, Gur, Central, Northern, Oti-Volta, Western, Northwest, Dagaari-Birifor, Birifor. Dagaari, Wali, and Birifor of Ghana are separate languages.) p. 247, under Cote d'Ivoire (Birifor, Southern, var. Birifo. A separate language from Wali, Dagaar, and Malba-Birifor of Burkina Faso, and not inherently intelligible with them.) p. 275, under Ghana (Birifor, Southern, var. Birifo, Ghana Birifor. A separate language from Wali, Dagaari, and Malba-Birifor of Burkina Faso)