Tupuri language

Tupuri language

language
familycolor=Niger-Congo
name=Tupuri
nativename=
speakers=216,000
states=Chad, Cameroon
fam2=Atlantic-Congo
fam3=Volta-Congo
fam4=North
fam5=Adamawa-Ubangi
fam6=Adamawa
fam7=Mbum-Day
fam8=Mbum
fam9=Northern Mbum
fam10=Tupuri-Mambai
iso3=tui

Tupuri (or Toupouri) is a language mostly spoken in the Mayo-Kebbi Est Region of southern Chad but there are small pats in northern Cameroon. It is a Mbum language spoken by the Tupuri people with approximately 200,000 speakers.

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tui Ethnologue report]


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