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Tupuri
Tupuri dance group
Regions with significant populations
Cameroon and Chad
 Chad215,466[1]
 Cameroon125,000
Languages
Tupuri • Arabic • French
Religion
Christianity • Traditional
Tupuri dance group

The Tupuri are an ethnic group in Cameroon and Chad. They speak a language called Tupuri, which had 125,000 speakers in Cameroon at an unspecified date and 90,785 speakers in Chad in 1993. There were 215,466 of them in Chad in 2009.[1]

In Cameroon, the Tupuri live east of Kaélé in the Kaele division and in the Kar-Hay subdivision of the Mayo-Danay division of the Far North Province. In Chad, Tupuri live near Fianga, Fianga Subprefecture, Mayo-Kebbi Prefecture in the southwest of the country.[2]

The Tupuri are known for a dance called the gourna, "the dance of the cock", which involves the dancers forming a circle and holding long sticks.[3][4]

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Analyse Thematique des Resultats Definitifs Etat et Structures de la Population". Institut National de la Statistique, des Études Économiques et Démographiques du Tchad. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  2. ^ Ethnologue.
  3. ^ Chrispin 129.
  4. ^ West 18.

References

  • Chrispin, Pettang, directeur, Cameroun: Guide touristique. Paris: Les Éditions Wala.
  • Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005): "Tupuri". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 15th ed. Dallas: SIL International. Accessed 7 June 2006.
  • West, Ben (2004). Cameroon: The Bradt Travel Guide. Guilford, Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press Inc.
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