Tupuri language
Language of Chad and Cameroon / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Tuburi language.
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.
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Tupuri | |
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Native to | Chad, Cameroon |
Ethnicity | Tupuri people |
Native speakers | 320,000 (2005–2019)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | tui |
Glottolog | tupu1244 |
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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]