Gullah
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noun
- a member of a group of former slaves and their descendants living on the Sea Islands and in adjacent isolated coastal areas of South Carolina and Georgia
- the English creole spoken by the Gullahs, containing vocabulary and grammatical features from various West African languages
- loosely any variety of black speech of coastal South Carolina or Georgia
See Gullah in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(gŭlˈə)
noun- One of a group of people of African ancestry inhabiting the Sea Islands and coastal areas of South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida.
- 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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