title: Tula language
text: # Tula language
  
  Tula (also Kotule or Kitule) is one of the Savanna languages of Gombe State, northeastern Nigeria.
  
  ## Dialects
  
  Kleinewillinghöfer (2014) lists 3 Tula dialects.
  
  * Tula-Wange (Kutule) is possibly the oldest group. There are several hamlets located on the Tula Plateau. The people refer to themselves as Kɪtʊlɛ.
  * Tula-Baule, possibly former Chadic speakers who had shifted to Tula.
  * Tula-Yiri or Yili is the smallest and most divergent group.
  