Gullah language

Gullah
Gullah
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)
Native speakers	300 fluent (2021); 5,000 semi-fluent
Language family	English Creole Atlantic Eastern Northern (Bahamian–Gullah) Gullah; ; ; ;
Dialects	Afro-Seminole Creole;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gul – inclusive code Sea Island Creole English; Individual code:; afs – Afro-Seminole Creole
Glottolog	gull1241 Sea Island Creole English
ELP	Geechee-Gullah
Linguasphere	52-ABB-aa

Gullah (also called Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English, and Geechee) 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.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.