Tyefo language

Tyefo
Cɛfɔ
Native to Burkina Faso
Ethnicity 12,000–15,000 (1995)[1]
Native speakers
1,000 (1995)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tiq
Glottolog tief1242[2]

Tyefo, also spelled Cɛfɔ, Tiéfo, Kiefo, Tyeforo, is a language of Burkina Faso, formerly linked with the Gur languages, that is currently of uncertain affiliation. One of the two recorded dialects is extinct.

References

  1. 1 2 Tyefo at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tiefo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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