The Bala language (Chinese: 巴拉語; pinyin: Bālāyǔ) is a possibly extinct Tungusic language that was spoken in and around the Zhangguangcai Range of Heilongjiang Province, Northeastern China.
No standard orthography exists for the language, although manuscripts have occasionally recorded Bala words using Chinese characters.
Bala is more closely related to Jurchen than it is to Manchu and retains many archaic features.
It reportedly became extinct in 1982, but it is unknown whether there could be rememberers of the language still alive today.
Bala villages in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces include Acheng 阿城, Bayan 巴彦, Binxian 宾县, Fangzheng 方正, Hulan 呼兰, Mulan 木兰, Shangzhi 尚志, Shuangcheng 双城, Tonghe 通河, Wuchang 五常, and Yanshou 延寿, Emu 额穆, Guandi 官地, Yushu 榆树, and Jiaohe 蛟河.