The Tupuri are an ethnic group

Ethnic group

An ethnic group is a group of people whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage, often consisting of a common language, a common culture and/or an ideology that stresses common ancestry or endogamy...

 in Cameroon

Cameroon

Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...

 and Chad

Chad

Chad , officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west...

. They speak a language called Tupuri

Tupuri language

Tupuri is a language mostly spoken in the Mayo-Kebbi Est Region of southern Chad but there are small pats in northern Cameroon. It is an Mbum language spoken by the Tupuri people with approximately 300,000 speakers.-External links:**...

, which had 125,000 speakers in Cameroon at an unspecified date and 90,785 speakers in Chad in 1993. In Cameroon, the Tupuri live east of Kaélé

Kaélé

Kaélé is a town in Cameroon's Far North Province, on the Diamaré Plain at . It lies near the Chadian border and 104 km south of Maroua. The town has a population of roughly 7,000 and is the capital of the Mayo Kani division. The cottonseed oil company Diamaor runs a mill there. Kaélé is...

 in the Kaele division and in the Kar-Hay subdivison of the Mayo-Danay division of the Far North Province

Far North Province

The Far North Region , also known as the Extreme North Region , is the northernmost constituent province of the Republic of Cameroon. It borders the North Region to the south, Chad to the east, and Nigeria to the west. The capital is Maroua.The province is one of Cameroon's most culturally diverse...

. In Chad, Tupuri live near Fianga, Fianga Subprefecture, Mayo-Kebbi Prefecture

Mayo-Kébbi Prefecture

This article refers to one of the former prefectures of Chad. From 2002 the country was divided into 18 regions.Mayo-Kébbi was one of the 14 prefectures of Chad. Located in the southwest of the country, Mayo-Kébbi covered an area of 30,105 square kilometers and had a population of 825,158 in 1993....

in the southeast of the country. The Tupuri are known for a dance called the gourna, "the dance of the cock", which inolves the dancers forming a circle and holding long sticks.