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Ethnic group From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
![]() Tupuri dance group | |
Regions with significant populations | |
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Cameroon and Chad | |
![]() | 215,466[1] |
![]() | 125,000 |
Languages | |
Tupuri • Arabic • French | |
Religion | |
Christianity • Traditional |
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]
The Tupuri political and religious life is headed by the Wang Doré, the traditional Kings of Doré, who are based in the village of Doré near Fianga, Chad.[5]