Gula Iro language

The Gula Iro language is a Bua language spoken by some 3,500 people north and east of Lake Iro in southern Chad, between the Bola and Salamat rivers. It has four dialects, according to Pairault:

páṭóól, the northernmost and the least comprehensible to speakers of the other dialects, spoken in and around Badi;
pòŋààl, by the north shore of the lake, spoken in and around Boum Kabir, Boum Sarher, and Tordjigel;
tɩ́ààlà, spoken east and south of the lake, including Kouré, Bouni, Tormorhal, and Masidjanga;
tííṭààl, the easternmost, spoken in various villages west of Tamba;

to which Ethnologue adds a fifth, Korintal, spoken in Tieou.
Gula Iro is very closely related to Zan Gula and Bon Gula, but they are not mutually comprehensible.

Phonology

The consonants, along with their orthography, are:

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Apico-dental	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosives	p		t	ṭ		k
Fricatives		f			s		h
Liquids	w		l		y		-
Nasal	m		n		ñ	ŋ	-
Trills			r	-	-	-	-

The vowels are: a, e, i, o, u, ɛ, ɩ, ɔ, ʋ. Nasalization and length are both contrastive, and diphthongs can be formed. Tone is phonemic; each vowel must carry high or low tone.

Grammar

Typical word order is subject–verb–object. The basic subject pronouns are: ñó I, mó you, á he/she/it, pʋ́ we, én we, í you, ʋ́ they.