Tupuri language

Tupuri
Tupuri
Native to	Chad, Cameroon
Ethnicity	Tupuri people
Native speakers	320,000 (2005–2019)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Mbum–Day Mbum Northern Mbum Tupuri–Mambai Tupuri; ; ; ; ; ;
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).

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