Tupuri people

Tupuri
	Tupuri dance group
Regions with significant populations
	Cameroon and Chad
Chad	215,466
Cameroon	125,000
Languages
	Tupuri • Arabic • French
Religion
	Christianity • Traditional

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]

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]

Notes

^ ^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.
^ Ethnologue.
^ Chrispin 129.
^ West 18.
^ Tchago, Boumion D. (1994). "La fête religieuse de Kagi du royaume de Doré". In Tubiana, Joseph (ed.). L'identité tchadienne : l'héritage des peuples et les apports extérieurs : actes du colloque international célébrant le 30e anniversaire de la fondation de l'Institut national des sciences humaines de l'Université du Tchad, Ndjaména, 25-27 novembre 1991. Paris: Harmattan. pp. 139–157. ISBN 2-7384-2622-0.

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.