Gullah

Gullah is the name of both an ethnic group and its English-African creole language.

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The Gullah people, who are of African slave ancestry, live in the Sea Islands and the coastal regions of nearby South Carolina, Georgia and northern Florida. In Georgia, they are commonly referred to as Geechees. A newer term is Native Islanders, but its appropriateness has been debated because it implies that the people are native to The Americas and not to Africa.

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Creole language: A Creole is a language descended from a pidgin that has become the native language of a group of people. The majority of creole languages are based on English, Portuguese, French, Spanish and other languages (their superstrate language), with local or immigrant languages as substrate languages....