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Tula language

Tula is one of the Savanna languages of Gombe State, northeastern Nigeria.

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Tula
Native tonortheastern Nigeria
RegionKaltungo LGA, Gombe State
Native speakers
(30,000 cited 1998)1
Language codes
ISO 639-3tul
Glottologtula1252

Tula (also Kotule or Kitule2) is one of the Savanna languages of Gombe State, northeastern Nigeria.

Dialects

Kleinewillinghöfer (2014) lists 3 Tula dialects.3

  • Tula-Wange (Kutule) is possibly the oldest group. There are several hamlets located on the Tula Plateau. The people refer to themselves as Kɪtʊlɛ.2
  • Tula-Baule, possibly former Chadic speakers who had shifted to Tula.
  • Tula-Yiri or Yili is the smallest and most divergent group.
References

References

  1. Tula at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Blench, Roger. 2020. The phonology and noun morphology of Yi Kɪtʊlɛ: an Adamawa language of East-Central Nigeria.
  3. Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich. 2014. The languages of the Tula – Waja Group. Adamawa Languages Project.