Tula language
{{Short description|Savanna language spoken in Nigeria}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Tula
|nativename=
|states=northeastern Nigeria
|region=Kaltungo LGA, Gombe State
|speakers=30,000
|date=1998
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam2=Atlantic–Congo
|fam3=Waja–Kam
|fam4=Waja
|fam5=Tula languages
|iso3=tul
|glotto=tula1252
|glottorefname=Tula
}}
Tula (also Kotule or Kitule) is one of the Savanna languages of Gombe State, northeastern Nigeria.
Dialects
Kleinewillinghöfer (2014) lists 3 Tula dialects.Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich. 2014. [https://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb07-adamawa/adamawa-languages/tula-waja-group/the-languages-of-the-tula-waja-group/ The languages of the Tula – Waja Group]. Adamawa Languages Project.
- Tula-Wange (Kutule) is possibly the oldest group. There are several hamlets located on the Tula Plateau. The people refer to themselves as Kɪtʊlɛ.Blench, Roger. 2020. [https://www.academia.edu/41597561/Phonology_and_nominal_morphology_of_Kitul%C9%9B The phonology and noun morphology of Yi Kɪtʊlɛ: an Adamawa language of East-Central Nigeria].
- Tula-Baule, possibly former Chadic speakers who had shifted to Tula.
- Tula-Yiri or Yili is the smallest and most divergent group.
References
{{Reflist}}
- Blench, Roger. 2012. [https://www.academia.edu/9598133/Wordlist_and_analysis_of_Tula_and_Adamawa_language_of_NE_Nigeria Wordlist and analysis of Tula, and Adamawa language of NE Nigeria].
{{Languages of Nigeria}}
{{Adamawa languages}}
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