Tupuri language

Tupuri
Native toChad, Cameroon
EthnicityTupuri people
Native speakers
320,000 (2005–2019)[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]

  1. ^ Tupuri at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference ALCAM2012 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).