Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of a group of people of African ancestry inhabiting the Sea Islands and coastal areas of South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida.
- noun The creolized language of the Gullahs, based on English but including vocabulary elements and grammatical features from several African languages and spoken in isolated communities from Georgetown in eastern South Carolina to northern Florida.
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- adjective Pertaining to the
language andculture of a group ofislands off the coast of the Carolinas and Georgia in theUnited States . - proper noun A
creole of English and various African languages spoken on a group of islands off the southern coast of the United States.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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(The term Gullah itself is either a shortened form of Angola or a form of Gola, the name of a tribe in Liberia.)
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Middle Passage in the Caribbean colonies, those Africans on the sea coast islands off of Georgia and South Carolina, the Gullah -- [changing pronunciation] -- we say in English Gullah; those of us in the black community say Geechee -- those people brought into the black religious experience, a flavor that other seasoned Africans could not bring.
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I remember learning about this dialect called Gullah in South Carolina and Geechee in Georgia when I took intro linguistics at Tulane.
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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I remember learning about this dialect called Gullah in South Carolina and Geechee in Georgia when I took intro linguistics at Tulane.
The Bible in Gullah 2005
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- His Geechee accent also known as Gullah, rooted among some African-Americans from the southeastern U.S. coast made him self-conscious as a poor child from Pin Point, Georgia.
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Legree recalled the Gullah tradition at the second of three forums intended to gather community input for the new St. Helena Library at Penn Center.
Island Packet: Home 2010
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The Gullah are a distinct, heritage-minded group of African-Americans living in South Carolina and Georgia's Lowcountry coastal regions, the area where the menu finds its inspiration.
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He traced the dialect to a community of African-Americans called the Gullah, who lived in relative isolation on the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Legree recalled the Gullah tradition at the second of three forums intended to gather community input for the new St. Helena Library at Penn Center.
Island Packet: Home 2010
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Legree recalled the Gullah tradition at the second of three forums intended to gather community input for the new St. Helena Library at Penn Center.
Island Packet: Home 2010
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