Tula language explained

Tula
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.^[1]

• 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.

References

• Blench, Roger. 2012. Wordlist and analysis of Tula, and Adamawa language of NE Nigeria.

Notes and References

1. Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich. 2014. The languages of the Tula – Waja Group. Adamawa Languages Project.
2. Blench, Roger. 2020. The phonology and noun morphology of Yi Kɪtʊlɛ: an Adamawa language of East-Central Nigeria.