Gullah Definition

gŭlə
noun
A member of a group of former slaves and their descendants living on the Sea Islands and in adjacent isolated coastal areas of South Carolina and Georgia.
Webster's New World
The English creole spoken by the Gullahs, containing vocabulary and grammatical features from various West African languages.
Webster's New World
Any variety of black speech of coastal South Carolina or Georgia.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A creole of English and various African languages spoken on a group of islands off the southern coast of the United States.

Gullah has been spoken continuously since before the Civil War.
Wiktionary
adjective

Pertaining to the language and culture of a group of islands off the coast of the Carolinas and Georgia in the United States.

The music of George Gershwin’s Porgie and Bess was inspired in part by Gullah "shouts".
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Origin of Gullah

  • Perhaps alteration of Angola or from Gola a people of Sierra Leone and Liberia

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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Words Starting With

GGUGUL

Words Ending With

HAHLAH

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