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Malba Birifor | |
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Bɩrfʋɔr | |
Native to | Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast |
Ethnicity | Birifor |
Native speakers | (110,000 in Burkina Faso cited 1993)[1] |
Latin (Malba Birifor alphabet) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bfo |
Glottolog | malb1235 |
Northern Birifor or Malba Birifor is a Gur language of the Niger–Congo family. It is spoken by a few hundred thousand people, mainly in the southwest of Burkina Faso, particularly in the provinces of Bougouriba, Ioba, Noumbiel and Poni and in western Ivory Coast.