Tula language

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

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

Dialects

Kleinewillinghöfer (2014) lists three Tula dialects.

References

  1. ↑ Tula at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 Blench, Roger. 2020. The phonology and noun morphology of Yi Kɪtʊlɛ: an Adamawa language of East-Central Nigeria.
  3. ↑ Adelberger, Jörg; Blench, Roger (2026). "The peopling of the Muri Mountains, Northern Nigeria: evidence from linguistics and ethnography". AAeO - Afrikanistik-Aegyptologie-Online. doi:10.18716/OJS/AAEO/2026_12031.
  4. ↑ Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich. 2014. The languages of the Tula – Waja Group. Adamawa Languages Project.