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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.

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

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No references found	At the height of her literary career in the mid-to-late 1920s, Julia Peterkin ranked among the nation's foremost "black" writers because of her alleged "realistic" representation of the Gullahs, the black people who lived and worked at Lang Syne Plantation, her home in Sumter, South Carolina. The rhetoric of mobility, the politics of consciousness: Julia Mood ... by Lewis, Nghana tamu / African American Review So that you can better grasp the significance of Penn School, let us explain a bit about the Gullahs and their heritage. Beaufort by Renouf, Norman; Renouf, Kathy / Romantic Weekends: the Carolinas & the Georgia Coast Deeply wooded areas are thought by the Gullahs to be sacred because the spirits of the ancestors reside there (Jones-Jackson 27). Recovering the conjure woman: texts and contexts in Gloria Naylor's ... by Tucker, Lindsey / African American Review	Guliaev Koshki Guliaev, Iurii Guliaev, Iurii Aleksandrovich Guliaipole Guliamov, Iakhia Guliamov, Iakhia Guliamovich Gulian, Constantin Ionescu Guliashchie Liudi Guliashki, Andrei Gulick, Luther Gulick, Luther Halsey Guliev, Aliovsat Nadzhafguli ogly Gulistan Gulistan, Treaty of Gulistan, Treaty of 1813 Gulja Gulkevichi Gulkhani, Mukhammed Sharif gull Gull Point State Park gull wing Gull, Sir William Withey gull-wing door gull-wing lead Gullah Gullahs gullet gulley Gullfoss Gullibility Gulliver, Lemuel Gullstrand, Allvar Gully gully erosion Gully-Ravine Relief gully-squall Gulomaliev, Gulomkhaidar Gulomkhaidar Gulomaliev gulp Gulripshi Gulshad Gulubov, Zhivko Spasov gum gum acacia gum accroides gum ammoniac Gum Arabic Gum Bands gum benzoin gum bloom gum dammar	Gulkevichi Gulkhani, Mukhammed Sharif gull gull gull gull gull Gull Lake Fellowship Open Gull Lake Yacht Club Gull Point State Park Gull teaser Gull wing Gull wing Gull wing door gull wing pattern Gull's disease Gull's disease Gull's disease Gull's disease Gull, Sir William Withey Gull-wing Gull-wing Gull-wing door Gull-wing door Gull-wing doors gull-wing lead gull-winged Gullage Gullah Gullah Gullahs gulled gulled gulled gulled Guller Guller Guller Architecture Urbanism gulleries Gullery gullet gullet gullet gullet gullet worm gullet worm gullet worm Gulleting Gulleting Gulleting gullets gullets gullets Gullett Sanford Robinson & Martin Gulley Gulley gulleyed gulleyed gulleying gulleying gulleys gulleys

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At the height of her literary career in the mid-to-late 1920s, Julia Peterkin ranked among the nation's foremost "black" writers because of her alleged "realistic" representation of the Gullahs, the black people who lived and worked at Lang Syne Plantation, her home in Sumter, South Carolina.

The rhetoric of mobility, the politics of consciousness: Julia Mood ... by Lewis, Nghana tamu / African American Review

So that you can better grasp the significance of Penn School, let us explain a bit about the Gullahs and their heritage.

Beaufort by Renouf, Norman; Renouf, Kathy / Romantic Weekends: the Carolinas & the Georgia Coast

Deeply wooded areas are thought by the Gullahs to be sacred because the spirits of the ancestors reside there (Jones-Jackson 27).

Recovering the conjure woman: texts and contexts in Gloria Naylor's ... by Tucker, Lindsey / African American Review

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