Tula_language

Tula language

Tula language

Savanna language spoken in Nigeria

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

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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.

References

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


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