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
Native toChad, Cameroon
EthnicityTupuri people
Native speakers
230,000 (2005–2006)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3tui
Glottologtupu1244[2]

References

  1. Tupuri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tupuri". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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