Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 gur
Farefare Language Frafra
Farefare is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 1.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Farefare is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Farefare
Language family
- Atlantic-Congo
- Volta-Congo
- North Volta-Congo
- Gur
- Central Gur
- Northern Central Gur
- Bwamu-Oti-Volta
- Oti-Volta
- Nuclear Oti-Volta
- Gurma-Yom-Oti-Volta Occidental
- Oti-Volta Occidental
- Nuclear Oti-Volta Occidental
- Northwest Oti-Volta
- Mossi-Farefare
- Farefareic
- Farefare
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Farefare language
Farefare (Frafra) is spoken by about 1.0 million people, which makes it the 466th most spoken language in the world — just behind Garo (1.0 million) and ahead of Ebira (1.0 million). It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the Farefareic group within the North Volta-Congo branch.
Where is Farefare spoken?
Farefare is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Ghana (1.2 million).
Farefare is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Farefare is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Mossi, Southern Dagaare, Dagaari Dioula, Northern Dagara, Dagbani, Kabiyè and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 gur.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.