Birifor language

found: 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 ...)

found: 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.)

found: Fivaz, D. and P.E. Scott. Afr. langs., 1977:p. 23, under Central Gur (Birifor, var. Birifo, Lober; listed separately from Dagaari)

found: Niger Congo langs., 1989:p. 145 (Birifor, Ghana and Burkina Faso; listed under Dagaari group of Oti-Volta langs. of Central Gur group)

found: 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)