Tupuri language
Tupuri language
Main page

Tupuri language

logo
Community Hub0 subscribers
What are your thoughts?
Be the first to start a discussion here.
Be the first to start a discussion here.
Tupuri 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.

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).

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

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

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

See all
User Avatar
No comments yet.