Gullah
Gullah definition
☆ Gul·lah (gul′ə)
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
Etymology: after ? Gola (Gula), tribal group in Liberia, or < ? Ngola, tribal group in the Hamba basin in Angola
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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