Tupuri language

Tupuri
Native to Chad, Cameroon
Ethnicity Tupuri people
Native speakers
230,000 (2005–2006)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tui
Glottolog tupu1244[2]

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.

References

  1. Tupuri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tupuri". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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