Tupuri language

Spoken in

Niger - Congo

• Atlantic - Congo North Volta - Congo Adamawa - Ubangi

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The Tupuri (on Tupuri: tupuro ) is a language that is spoken in Chad and Cameroon of about 200,000 people.

Toupouri or Tupuri or Tpuri referred to at the same time the people who speak this language as their mother tongue ( double connotation ).

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The language Tupuri spelled with the Latin alphabet. One distinguishes the consonants: b ɓ cd ɗ fghjklmn ŋ prstwy and the vowels: u AEIO

History

The Bible was translated in the 19th century in the Tupuri and there since the 20th century also a practical alphabet for the native-language literacy of Tupuri - people.

Vocabulary

The Tupuri calendar:

Days of the week:

Language situation

The benefits Tupuri, as well as the other national languages ​​of Chad, of no official status.

The article 9 of the Chadian Constitution states that the official languages ​​of Chad are Arabic and French, and that the law fixes the conditions for the preservation, promotion and development of national languages.

" ' " Les langues sont le français et l' officielles arabe. La loi fixe les conditions de promotion et de développement des langues national. " ' "

Therefore, most Tupuri take over the Arab or French as their mother tongue.

However, the Tupuri if only in Protestant churches serves as a liturgical language.