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Tula language

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

Tula (also Kotule or Kitule[2]) is one of the Savanna languages of Gombe State, northeastern Nigeria.

Dialects

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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.

References

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  1. ^ Tula at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Blench, Roger. 2020. The phonology and noun morphology of Yi Kɪtʊlɛ: an Adamawa language of East-Central Nigeria.
  3. ^ Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich. 2014. The languages of the Tula – Waja Group. Adamawa Languages Project.