Tupuri people
 Tupuri dance group | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Cameroon and Chad | |
 Chad | 215,466[1] |
 Cameroon | 125,000 |
| Languages | |
| Tupuri • Arabic • French | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity • Traditional | |
Tupuri dance group
The Tupuri are an ethnic group in Cameroon and Chad. They speak a language called Tupuri, which had 125,000 speakers in Cameroon at an unspecified date and 90,785 speakers in Chad in 1993. There were 215,466 of them in Chad in 2009.[1]
In Cameroon, the Tupuri live east of Kaélé in the and in the of the of the Far North Province. In Chad, Tupuri live near Fianga, , Mayo-Kebbi Prefecture in the southwest of the country.[2]
The Tupuri are known for a dance called the gourna, "the dance of the cock", which involves the dancers forming a circle and holding long sticks.[3][4]
Notes[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Analyse Thematique des Resultats Definitifs Etat et Structures de la Population". Institut National de la Statistique, des Études Économiques et Démographiques du Tchad. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Ethnologue.
- ^ Chrispin 129.
- ^ West 18.
References[]
- Chrispin, Pettang, directeur, Cameroun: Guide touristique. Paris: Les Éditions Wala.
- Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005): "Tupuri". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 15th ed. Dallas: SIL International. Accessed 7 June 2006.
- West, Ben (2004). Cameroon: The Bradt Travel Guide. Guilford, Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press Inc.
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