Tupuri | |
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Native to | Chad, Cameroon |
Ethnicity | Tupuri people |
Native speakers | 320,000 (2005–2019)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | tui |
Glottolog | tupu1244 |
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]
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