Tupuri
Tupuri is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Cameroon and Chad.
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Tupuri (autonym: jäāk Tüpürï), sometimes rendered as 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 352,000 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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Words in Tupuri
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | bolo* | |
| name | du* | |
| eye | nene* | |
| ear | sugi* | |
| nose | huy* | |
| tooth | saN* | |
| tongue | turum* | |
| hand | do* | |
| blood | Ci* | |
| bone | hu* | |
| skin | hoge* | |
| knee | ku5okre* | |
| breast | jili* | |
| liver | jiri* | |
| water | bi* | |
| fire | wu* | |
| sun | wuri* | |
| star | gErE* | |
| stone | hu* | |
| tree | ko* | |
| leaf | sukko* | |
| night | suNsuN* | |
| dog | way* | |
| fish | Ce* | |
| louse | tEndE* | |
| one | boN* | |
| two | bogE* | |
| I | ndi* | |
| you | ndo* | |
| we | na* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- MundangAtlantic-Congo25% alike
- NdaiAtlantic-Congo25% alike
- Dama (Cameroon)Atlantic-Congo24% alike
- Pam (Cameroon)Atlantic-Congo22% alike
- KarangAtlantic-Congo20% alike
- Mono (Cameroon)Atlantic-Congo19% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · tupu1244 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · tui