Editing Gula Iro language (section)

{{Short description|Bua language of Chad}}
{{No footnotes|date=February 2008}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Gula Iro
|states=[[Chad]]
|speakers=3,500
|date=1991
|ref=e25
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam2=[[Atlantic–Congo languages|Atlantic–Congo]]
|fam3=[[Mbum–Day languages|Mbum–Day]]
|fam4=[[Bua languages|Bua]]
|fam5=Gula
|iso3=glj
|glotto=gula1265
|glottorefname=Gula Iro
}}

The '''Gula Iro language''' (autonym ''kùláál'') is a [[Bua languages|Bua language]] spoken by some 3,500 people (in 1991) north and east of [[Lake Iro]] in southern [[Chad]], between the [[Bola River, Chad|Bola]] and [[Bahr Salamat|Salamat]] rivers.  It has four dialects, according to Pairault:
*''páṭóól'' (350 speakers), the northernmost and the least comprehensible to speakers of the other dialects, spoken in and around [[Badi, Chad|Badi]];
*''pòŋààl'' (2,000 speakers), by the north shore of the lake, spoken in and around [[Boum Kabir]], [[Boum Sarher]], and [[Tordjigel]];
*''tɩ́ààlà'' (730 speakers), spoken east and south of the lake, including [[Kouré, Chad|Kouré]], [[Bouni, Chad|Bouni]], [[Tormorhal]], and [[Masidjanga]];
*''tííṭààl'' (200 speakers), the easternmost, spoken in various villages west of [[Tamba, Chad|Tamba]];

to which [[Ethnologue]] adds a fifth, Korintal (170 speakers), spoken in [[Tieou]].<ref name=e25/>

Gula Iro is very closely related to [[Zan Gula language|Zan Gula]] and [[Bon Gula language|Bon Gula]], but they are not mutually comprehensible.