Northern Birifor language

Malba Birifor
Bɩrfʋɔr
Native toBurkina Faso, Ivory Coast
EthnicityBirifor
Native speakers
(110,000 in Burkina Faso cited 1993)[1]
Niger–Congo?
Latin (Malba Birifor alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3bfo
Glottologmalb1235

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.

  1. ^ Malba Birifor at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon