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Gullah | |
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Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English | |
Native to | United States |
Region | Coastal low country region of South Carolina and Georgia including the Sea Islands |
Ethnicity | 200,000 (Wolfram, 2021)[1] |
Native speakers | 300 fluent (2021)[1] 5,000 semi-fluent[1] |
English Creole
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Dialects | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | gul – inclusive code Sea Island Creole EnglishIndividual code: afs – Afro-Seminole Creole |
Glottolog | gull1241 Sea Island Creole English |
ELP | Geechee-Gullah |
Linguasphere | 52-ABB-aa |
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]
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