Tupuri (or Toupouri) is a language mostly spoken in the
Mayo-Kebbi Est Region of southern
Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...
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).
Distribution
Tupuri is predominantly spoken in the southeastern part of the Moulvouday plain, in:
*Kaélé, Porhi, Taibong villages in
Moulvouday commune
*
Guidigis commune, in
Mayo-Kani department
*
Kar-Hay,
Kalfou
Kalfou is a town and commune in Niger. As of 2012, it had a population of 111,274.
References
Communes of Niger
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,
Datcheka,
Tchatibali communes in
Mayo-Danay department
The Viri or Wina are ethnically Tupuri, but today they speak a
Massa
Massa may refer to:
Places
*Massa, Tuscany, the administrative seat of the Italian province of Massa-Carrara.
*Massa (river), river in Switzerland
* Massa (Tanzanian ward), administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Ta ...
dialect.
Tupuri is also spoken in Chad. In Cameroon, it has about 125,000 speakers (SIL 2000).
References
Languages of Chad
Languages of Cameroon
Mbum languages
Tupuri
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