Tupuri language

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Tupuri
Native toChad, Cameroon
EthnicityTupuri people
Native speakers
230,000 (2005–2006)[1]
Niger–Congo?
Language codes
ISO 639-3tui
Glottologtupu1244

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 Masa dialect.[2]

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

References[]

  1. ^ Tupuri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Volume 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069. |volume= has extra text (help)


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