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Gullah
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Gul·lah  (gl)
n.
1. One of a group of people of African ancestry inhabiting the Sea Islands and coastal areas of South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida.
2. The creolized language of the Gullahs, based on English but including vocabulary elements and grammatical features from several African languages and spoken in isolated communities from Georgetown in eastern South Carolina to northern Florida.
[Perhaps alteration of Angola or from Gola, a people of Sierra Leone and Liberia.]
Gullah [ˈgʌlə]
n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -lahs, -lah a member of a Negroid people living on the Sea Islands or in the coastal regions of South Carolina, Georgia, and NE Florida
2. (Linguistics / Languages) the creolized English spoken by these people


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As the author explains in a note, the isolation of the Gullahs of the Georgia and South Carolina coast has fostered preservation of their West African heritage--crafts, farming practices, religion, and a unique language that is "a blend of English and African pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary.
Katharine Boling New Year Be Coming!: a Gullah Year by Long, Joanna Rudge / The Horn Book Magazine
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
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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