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Gullah (gŭl`ə), a creole language creole language , any language that began as a pidgin but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in place of the original mother tongue or tongues.
..... Click the link for more information. formerly spoken by the Gullah, an African-American community of the Sea Islands Sea Islands, chain of more than 100 low islands off the Atlantic coast of S.C., Ga., and N Fla., extending from the Santee River to the St. Johns River. The ocean side of the islands is generally sandy; the side facing the mainland is marshy.
..... Click the link for more information. and the Middle Atlantic coast of the United States. The word is probably a corruption of the African Gola or Gora, names of African tribes living in Liberia, but it may also be derived from Angola, whence many of the Gullahs' ancestors came. The Gullah dialect, spoken now by only a few hundred people, is a mixture of 17th- and 18th-century English and of a number of West African languages (among them Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba). The African influence on Gullah can be seen in the phonology, vocabulary, and grammar. Some African words in Gullah have entered American English, including goober ("peanut"), gumbo ("okra"), and voodoo ("witchcraft"). Du Bose Heyward's novel Porgy (1925), upon which Gershwin's opera is based, was written in the Gullah dialect.

Bibliography

See M. Crum, Gullah (1940); L. D. Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1973).

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No references found	To protect the habitat that sustains sweetgrass and bulrush and the culture that identifies with coiled basketry, local leaders and the National Park Service have pushed successfully for federal recognition of the Gullah/ Geechee Heritage Area. Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art by Schildkrout, Enid; Rosengarten, Dale; Rosengarten, Theodore / African Arts as well as BAHASA(Malay-Indonesia), BWAANABA (Kiribati), CATALAN (Spain/France/Andorra), KANNADA (India), KARAKALPAK (Kazhak), MABAAN (Luo), PAMPANGAN (Austronesian) is a 'ladder word' (see Ladder Words 2002279), GEECHEE (English Creole), YEKHEE (Edo), OROMO (Cushitic), KUKUKUKU (Papuan) PERSONALITIES A considerable number of personalities, from various walks of life, have HV names. A homovocalic survey by Thorpe, Susan / Word Ways Daughters of the Dust, Julie Dash: a Geechee Girls Production, 1991. Third cinema in the "first" world: Eve's Bayou and Daughters of the ... by Biccum, April / CineAction	Gedenshtrom, Matvei Matveevich Gedeon Gedeonov Method Gedeonov, Dmitrh Gedeonov, Dmitrh Danilovich Gedeonov, Stepan Gedeonov, Stepan Aleksandrovich Gederah Gederoth Gedike, Aleksandr Gedike, Aleksandr Fedorovich Gediminas Albino Iokubonis Gediminas Stanislovo Valiuškis Gediminas Stanislovo Valiuskis Gedinnian Stage Gediz Gedor gedrite Gedroits, Konstantin Gedroits, Konstantin Kaetanovich Gedrosia Gedymin Gee Gee chart geebung Geechee geef geek geek out Geekonics geekspeak Geel geelbek Geelong Geelvink Bay geepound Geer, Louis de Geeraardsbergen Geerewol Celebrations Geertgen Tot Sint Jans Geertz, Clifford Geertz, Clifford James Geese Geese of Brother Philip Geests Geffrard, Nicholas Fabre GeForce geg Gegam Gegam Bagdasarovich Sarian Gegam Sarian	Gee suits Gee That's Too Bad gee whiz gee whiz gee whiz Gee Whiz (Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode) Gee Whiz BASIC Gee You Are You Gee's disease Gee, I Wish I Had Said That Gee, I Wish I Said It Gee, I Wish I'd Said That gee-gee gee-gees Gee-Herter disease Gee-Herter-Heubner disease gee-string gee-string gee-strings gee-strings Gee-Thaysen disease gee-whiz Gee-Whiz Beginners' All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code GEEA geebung geebung geebungs geebungs GEEC GEECF Geechee Geechees GEECL GEECO GEECS GEECS for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science geed geed geed GEEE GEEEM geef geef Geeforce Geeforces geegaw geegaws Geegle earth GEEI GEEIA GEEIA Workload Schedule geeing geeing GEEIP geek geek geek Geek canon Geek canon Geek culture Geek culture

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To protect the habitat that sustains sweetgrass and bulrush and the culture that identifies with coiled basketry, local leaders and the National Park Service have pushed successfully for federal recognition of the Gullah/ Geechee Heritage Area.

Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art by Schildkrout, Enid; Rosengarten, Dale; Rosengarten, Theodore / African Arts

as well as BAHASA(Malay-Indonesia), BWAANABA (Kiribati), CATALAN (Spain/France/Andorra), KANNADA (India), KARAKALPAK (Kazhak), MABAAN (Luo), PAMPANGAN (Austronesian) is a 'ladder word' (see Ladder Words 2002279), GEECHEE (English Creole), YEKHEE (Edo), OROMO (Cushitic), KUKUKUKU (Papuan) PERSONALITIES A considerable number of personalities, from various walks of life, have HV names.

A homovocalic survey by Thorpe, Susan / Word Ways

Daughters of the Dust, Julie Dash: a Geechee Girls Production, 1991.

Third cinema in the "first" world: Eve's Bayou and Daughters of the ... by Biccum, April / CineAction

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