Tupuri people

{{Infobox ethnic group

| group = Tupuri

| image = GroupeDanseNord2.jpg

| caption = Tupuri dance group

| regions = Cameroon and Chad

| region1 = {{flag|Chad}}

| pop1 = 215,466

| ref1 = {{cite web|url=http://www.inseed-td.net/index.php/blog-with-right-sidebar/document/send/7-documents-et-publications-demographique/20-indicateurs-globaux-issus-du-rgph2-97-dg-94-couleur-28mp-22|title=Analyse Thematique des Resultats Definitifs Etat et Structures de la Population |publisher=Institut National de la Statistique, des Études Économiques et Démographiques du Tchad |accessdate=3 May 2020}}

| region2 = {{flag|Cameroon}}

| pop2 = 125,000

| ref2 =

| languages = Tupuri • Arabic • French

| religions = Christianity • Traditional

}}

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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.inseed-td.net/index.php/blog-with-right-sidebar/document/send/7-documents-et-publications-demographique/20-indicateurs-globaux-issus-du-rgph2-97-dg-94-couleur-28mp-22|title=Analyse Thematique des Resultats Definitifs Etat et Structures de la Population |publisher=Institut National de la Statistique, des Études Économiques et Démographiques du Tchad |accessdate=3 May 2020}}

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.Ethnologue.

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.Chrispin 129.West 18.

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.{{cite book |last1=Tchago |first1=Boumion D. |editor1-last=Tubiana |editor1-first=Joseph |title=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 |date=1994 |publisher=Harmattan |location=Paris |isbn=2-7384-2622-0 |pages=139–157 |chapter=La fête religieuse de Kagi du royaume de Doré}}