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Name: Bissa
Type: Language
Alternate Name: Bisa
Spoken in: Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Togo, Ghana
Number of speakers: 350,000 in Burkina Faso (1999 SIL). Population does not include the Bissa southern Barka region. Population total all countries: 582,000 (Ethnologue)
Code: bib
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup: Bissa (biss)
Child Dialects: Lebir; Western Bisa; Bisa-Lebir (bib-leb) Barka (bib-bak) Lere (bib-ler) Baraka; Eastern Bisa (bib-bar)

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