Dagaare also known as Dagara or Birifor is a language spoken in Burkina faso, Cote divoire and Ghana by the Dagaaba people.
Dagaare language has approximately 3,000,000 native speakers.
The language has 3 dialects; Northern, Central and Southern.
In Ghana it is mainly called Dagaare, in Burkina Faso, it is mainly called Dagara and in Côte d’Ivoire it is mainly called Birifor.
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