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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)[1]
Native speakers
300 fluent (2021)[1] 5,000 semi-fluent[1]
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
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]
^ abcWolfram, 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)
^"Gullah-English, linguistics of African-American languages 101" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on March 22, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2021.
^"Glottolog 4.4 - Sea Island Creole English". glottolog.org. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Retrieved July 30, 2021.
^"Geechee", The Free Dictionary, archived from the original on July 30, 2021, retrieved July 30, 2021
^[1][dead link]
^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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