Tula language

Tula (also Kotule or Kitule^[2]) is one of the Savanna languages of Gombe State, northeastern Nigeria.

Tula
Native to	northeastern Nigeria
Region	Kaltungo LGA, Gombe State
Native speakers	(30,000 cited 1998)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Waja–Kam Waja Tula languages Tula
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tul
Glottolog	tula1252

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

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.

• Blench, Roger. 2012. Wordlist and analysis of Tula, and Adamawa language of NE Nigeria.