Gule language

{{Short description|Extinct Komuz language of Sudan}}

{{distinguish|Gulay language}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Gule

| altname = Anej, Fecakomodiyo, Hamej

| states = Sudan

| region = Blue Nile

| ethnicity = 1,000 (1983){{e18|gly}}

| ref = Evans-Pritchard, 'Ethnological observations in Dar Fung', Sudan Notes and Records 15 (1932: 51–52)

| familycolor = isolate

| family = Language isolate

| fam2 =

| fam3 =

| iso3 = gly

| glotto = gule1241

| glottorefname = Gule

| era = last attested 1932

}}

Gule, also known as Anej, Fecakomodiyo, and Hamej,{{cite web|title=Gule|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 May 2012|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=10 December 2024|url=http://multitree.org/codes/gly|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529232442/http://multitree.org/codes/gly}} is an extinct language of Sudan. Although it has been classified as one of the Koman languages, Zamponi (2025) unambiguously identifies Gule as a language isolate.Zamponi, Raoul (2025, forthcoming). [https://www.academia.edu/126721374/Zamponi_R_2025_Gule_Routledge_London_and_New_York Gule]. Routledge World Languages. London: Routledge. It is poorly attested, and Hammarström judges the evidence to be insufficient for classification as Koman.{{cite web| editor-last1= Hammarström| editor-first1 = Harald| editor-last2 = Forke| editor-first2 = Robert| editor-last3 = Haspelmath| editor-first3 = Martin| editor-last4 = Bank| editor-first4 = Sebastian| year = 2020|title = Gule | work = Glottolog 4.3| url = https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/gule1241}} Others however accept it as Koman, though too poorly attested to be much help in reconstructing that family.Gerrit Dimmendaal, Colleen Ahland & Angelika Jakobi (2019) Linguistic features and typologies in languages commonly referred to as 'Nilo-Saharan', Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics

The language was spoken by the inhabitants of Jebel Gule in Blue Nile State, Sudan. Speakers had shifted to Arabic by the late 20th century.