Nupe

¹

/ ˈnuːpeɪ /

noun

1. -pe-pes a member of a Negroid people of Nigeria, noted as fishermen, who live near the confluence of the Niger and Benue Rivers
2. the language of this people, belonging to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family

NUPE

²

/ ˈnjuːpɪ /

acronym for

1. National Union of Public Employees

Example Sentences

After she responded, “nupe,” Edwards wrote: “i totally did. am 20.”

From Los Angeles Times

Prison records showed that Fitzgerald also used the name Jean Nupe and was sentenced to state prison in October 2014 in Las Vegas.

From Washington Times

The youngest, Tommy, was born while Mr Corbyn was talking to Nupe members elsewhere in the same hospital.

From BBC

He listed the indigenous languages that were first written down in Ajami: Hausa, which is spoken by more than thirty million people across West Africa; Fulfulde, which is spoken by the Fulani, nomadic herdsmen spread across the Sahel; Nupe, spoken by the Nupe people in Nigeria’s Middle Belt; and Yoruba, the language of Nigeria’s second-biggest ethnic group, which is religiously mixed and based mostly in the South.

From The New Yorker

He listed the indigenous languages that were first written down in Ajami: Hausa, which is spoken by more than thirty million people across West Africa; Fulfulde, which is spoken by the Fulani, nomadic herdsmen spread across the Sahel; Nupe, spoken by the Nupe people in Nigeria’s Middle Belt; and Yoruba, the language of Nigeria’s second-biggest ethnic group, which is religiously mixed and based mostly in the South.

From The New Yorker