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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
Native to	Chad, Cameroon
Ethnicity	Tupuri people
Native speakers	230,000 (2005–2006)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Mbum–Day Mbum Northern Mbum Tupuri–Mambai Tupuri
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tui
Glottolog	tupu1244

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]

• Kaélé, Porhi, Taibong villages in Moulvouday commune
• Guidigis commune, in Mayo-Kani department
• Kar-Hay, Kalfou, Datcheka, Tchatibali communes in Mayo-Danay department

The Viri or Wina are ethnically Tupuri, but today they speak a Massa dialect.[2]

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

References

На других языках

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[de] Tupuri

Das Tupuri (auf Tupuri: tupuro) ist eine Sprache, die im Tschad und im Kamerun von etwa 200.000 Personen gesprochen wird.

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- [en] Tupuri language

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[fr] Toupouri (langue)

Le toupouri, tupuri ou tpuri (en toupuri : tupuro) est la langue des Toupouri, une langue adamaoua parlée au Cameroun par 130 000 locuteurs et au Tchad par 104 000 locuteurs, soit par 234 000 locuteurs au total.

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