| Tupuri | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Chad,Cameroon |
| Ethnicity | Tupuri people |
Native speakers | 320,000 (2005–2019)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tui |
| Glottolog | tupu1244 |
Tupuri (orToupouri) is a language mostly spoken in theMayo-Kebbi Est Region of southernChad and in small parts of northernCameroon. It is anMbum language spoken by theTupuri people with approximately 300,000 speakers.
Tupuri was erroneously classified as a Chadic language byJoseph Greenberg, due to a vocabulary list that is actually that of Kera (cf. K. Ebert 1974).[2]
Tupuri is predominantly spoken in the southeastern part of the Moulvouday plain, in:[2]
The Viri or Wina are ethnically Tupuri, but today they speak aMassa dialect.[2]
Tupuri is also spoken in Chad. In Cameroon, it has about 125,000 speakers (SIL 2000).[2]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | p | t | t͡ʃ | k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ | ɡ | ||
| prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | |||
| implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||
| Fricative | f | s | h | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Rhotic | r | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iiː | uuː | |
| Close-mid | eeː | ooː | |
| Open-mid | ɛɛː | ɔɔː | |
| Open | aaː |
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | ĩĩː | ũũː | |
| Close-mid | ẽẽː | õõː | |
| Open | ããː |
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