Due to the vast trading territories of the Jula, their language is now spoken by many; however, the Jula have maintained their ethnic separateness from other people groups, due largely to the way they distinguish themselves from other religions. Even in Jula families, separation is made from a non-Muslim. If you take away a Jula's "Muslimness," you take away their "Julaness." Religion, culture and identity are tightly wound around each other, to the point of creating the single unit known as Jula.