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Gullah definition

☆ Gul·lah (gul′ə)

noun

  1. 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
  2. the English creole spoken by the Gullahs, containing vocabulary and grammatical features from various West African languages
  3. 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.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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