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.

^ Tula at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ ^a ^b Blench, Roger. 2020. The phonology and noun morphology of Yi Kɪtʊlɛ: an Adamawa language of East-Central Nigeria.
^ 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.

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