The Tulua language, also written Toolooa and Dulua, and also known as Narung, is an extinct Aboriginal Australian language of Queensland in Australia

Tulua
Dappil
RegionQueensland
EthnicityDappil, Tulua
Extinctby 1973[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
GlottologNone
AIATSIS[2]E41

Dappil (Dapil) may be another name for the same language; they are treated as such by Terrill (1998). However, the Dappil and Tulua people were possibly the same peoples, and it is not certain what the names referred to. For example, Toolooa and Dappil in Mathew (1913) correspond to Dapil in Kite and Wurm (2004).

As of 2020, AIATSIS gives priority to the name "Tulua" for the language,[1] and Tulua is one of 20 languages prioritised as part of the Priority Languages Support Project, being undertaken by First Languages Australia and funded by the Department of Communications and the Arts. The project aims to "identify and document critically-endangered languages — those languages for which little or no documentation exists, where no recordings have previously been made, but where there are living speakers".[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "E41: Tulua". Austlang. AIATSIS. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  2. ^ E41 Tulua at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. ^ "Priority Languages Support Project". First Languages Australia. Retrieved 13 January 2020.