Tula language

Tula (also Kotule or Kitule[3]) is one of the Savanna languages of Gombe State, northeastern Nigeria.

Tula
Native tonortheastern Nigeria
RegionKaltungo LGA, Gombe State
Native speakers
30,000 (1998)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3tul
Glottologtula1252[2]

Dialects

Kleinewillinghöfer (2014) lists 3 Tula dialects.[4]

  • Tula-Wange (Kutule) is possibly the oldest group. There are several hamlets located on the Tula Plateau. The people refer to themselves as Kɪtʊlɛ.[3]
  • Tula-Baule, possibly former Chadic speakers who had shifted to Tula.
  • Tula-Yiri or Yili is the smallest and most divergent group.
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References
  1. Tula at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tula". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Blench, Roger. 2020. The phonology and noun morphology of Yi Kɪtʊlɛ: an Adamawa language of East-Central Nigeria.
  4. Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich. 2014. The languages of the Tula – Waja Group. Adamawa Languages Project.


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