Tulua language

{{short description|Extinct Australian Aboriginal language}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{use Australian English|date=January 2020}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Tulua

| altname = Dappil, Narung

| nativename =

| region = Queensland

| ethnicity = Dappil, Tulua

| extinct = by 1973

| ref = {{cite web|url=https://collection.aiatsis.gov.au/austlang/language/e41|website=Austlang|publisher=AIATSIS|title=E41:Tulua|date=26 July 2019|access-date=14 January 2020}}

| familycolor = Australian

| fam1 = Pama–Nyungan

| fam2 = Waka–Kabic

| fam3 = Than

| iso3 = none

| glotto = none

| aiatsis = E41

}}

The Tulua language, also written as Toolooa and Dulua and known as Narung is an extinct Aboriginal Australian language of Queensland in Australia.

Dappil (Dapil) may be another name for the same language; they are treated as such by Terrill (1998). However, the Dappil and Tulua people were possibly the same peoples, and it is not certain what the names referred to. For example, Toolooa and Dappil in Mathew (1913) correspond to Dapil in Kite and Wurm (2004).

{{as of|2020}}, AIATSIS gives priority to the name "Tulua" for the language, and Tulua is one of 20 languages prioritised as part of the Priority Languages Support Project, being undertaken by First Languages Australia and funded by the Department of Communications and the Arts. The project aims to "identify and document critically-endangered languages — those languages for which little or no documentation exists, where no recordings have previously been made, but where there are living speakers".{{cite web|website=First Languages Australia|url=https://www.firstlanguages.org.au/projects/plsp|title=Priority Languages Support Project|access-date=13 January 2020}}