Tupuri language

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Tupuri
Native to Chad, Cameroon
Ethnicity Tupuri people
Native speakers
320,000 (2005–2019) [1]
Niger–Congo?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tui
Glottolog tupu1244

Tupuri (or Toupouri) is a language mostly spoken in the Mayo-Kebbi Est Region of southern Chad and in small parts of northern Cameroon. It is an Mbum language spoken by the Tupuri people with approximately 300,000 speakers.

Tupuri was erroneously classified as a Chadic language by Joseph Greenberg, due to a vocabulary list that is actually that of Kera (cf. K. Ebert 1974). [2]

Distribution

Tupuri is predominantly spoken in the southeastern part of the Moulvouday plain, in: [2]

The Viri or Wina are ethnically Tupuri, but today they speak a Massa dialect. [2]

Tupuri is also spoken in Chad. In Cameroon, it has about 125,000 speakers (SIL 2000). [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Tupuri at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
  2. 1 2 3 4 Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM)[Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN   9789956796069.


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