Gullah

Examples

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• Gullah was the Creole language developed by West Africans when they were brought to the Lowcountry as slaves.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Rice's purpose is to inform and explain the benefits of incorporating Gullah music in public schools' music education programs.

  Academic text (2011)

• I'm starting now to research the Gullah culture, though.

  Fiction book (1998)

• But speaking Gullah had become a swift ramp to her soul.

  Fiction book (2000)

• I was raised in the downy bosom of the Gullah culture, as opposed to a Charlestonian reared in the strictures of the Episcopal Church.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Lorenzo Turner, one of the major proponents of Herskovits's position, in his study of the Gullah language spoken by blacks living on the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia, wrote that Americans who have attempted to explain Gullah have greatly underestimated the extent of the African element.

  Academic text (2013)

• The Gullah culture is celebrated for its rich storytelling and unique history.

• Many people visit the Sea Islands to learn about the Gullah language and traditions.

• Marquetta teaches visitors about the Gullah community's heritage and customs.

Synonyms

G

Geechee

vsGullah

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A local language mixing English and African words spoken in coastal Georgia and South Carolina

is broader, covering both that language and the community's culture

Surface Forms

Etymology