Gullah language

Gullah
Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English
Native toUnited States
RegionCoastal low country region of South Carolina and Georgia including the Sea Islands
Ethnicity200,000 (Wolfram, 2021)[1]
Native speakers
300 fluent (2021)[1]
5,000 semi-fluent[1]
English Creole
  • Atlantic
    • Eastern
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3gul – inclusive code Sea Island Creole English
Individual code:
afs – Afro-Seminole Creole
Glottologgull1241  Sea Island Creole English
ELPGeechee-Gullah
Linguasphere52-ABB-aa
A woman speaking Gullah and English

Gullah (also called Gullah-English,[2] Sea Island Creole English,[3] and Geechee[4]) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community), an African-American population living in coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia (including urban Charleston and Savannah) as well as extreme northeastern Florida and the extreme southeast of North Carolina.[5][6]

  1. ^ a b c Wolfram, 2021. "Gullah language speakers and population". Archived from the original on August 18, 2021. Retrieved July 27, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Gullah-English, linguistics of African-American languages 101" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on March 22, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2021.
  3. ^ "Glottolog 4.4 - Sea Island Creole English". glottolog.org. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Retrieved July 30, 2021.
  4. ^ "Geechee", The Free Dictionary, archived from the original on July 30, 2021, retrieved July 30, 2021
  5. ^ [1][dead link]
  6. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Sea Island Creole English". Glottolog 4.3. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Retrieved December 1, 2020.

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