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Nupe, a. and n.1|ˈnuːpeɪ|
Also 9 Nufi, Nupé, Nyffee.
[f. the name of a former kingdom at the junction of the Niger and Benue rivers in West Africa.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating a Negro people of central Nigeria, or their language.
B. n.
a. The Nupe people; a member of this people.
b. The language of this people, which belongs to the Kura division of the Sudanic language family.
1829H. Clapperton Jrnl. 2nd Exped. to Interior of Afr. i. 25 He hoped that we should settle the war with the Nyffee people and the Fellatah. 1841J. F. Schön Jrnl. 14 Sept. (1842) 119 The Nufi Language is spoken to a considerable distance, even beyond Rabba. 1883R. N. Cust Sk. Mod. Lang. Afr. I. xi. 228 At Lokója, at the confluence, Nupé is the principal language, though others are spoken. 1885J. S. Kingsley Standard Nat. Hist. VI. 320 We meet the Ibo language on the lower course of the Niger, and the Nupe from the Benne up. Ibid. 321 The Nupe..are genuine negroes in complexion and form of face, and indisputably one of the best-formed tribes in Africa. 1888G. T. Bettany World's Inhabitants vi. 614 Gando..includes the territory of the Nupe negroes. 1892A. F. Mockler-Ferryman Up Niger xiii. 151 The Mohammedan Nupe lives the life of a man-about-town. 1932J. Cary Aissa Saved iv. 24 The new town on the waterside, inhabited by Hausas, Nupes, Yorubas, the mixed population of a harbour. 1942S. F. Nadel Black Byzantium iii. 27 The Nupe have only one work for kinship, dengi, which defines relationship in the widest as well as in a more restricted sense. Ibid. vi. 70 The people in the capital regard the Nupe spoken in the districts and on the borders of the country as an inferior brand. 1974African Encycl. 375/2 The Nupe people live in valleys of the middle Niger and Kaduna rivers in Nigeria... They are famous for their work in glass, silver, bronze, and brass. |