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gullah

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Gul⋅lah

  [guhl-uh]
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–noun
1. a member of a population of black Americans inhabiting the Sea Islands and the coastal regions of South Carolina, Georgia, and northeastern Florida.
2. a creolized form of English spoken by the Gullahs, containing many words and grammatical features derived from African languages.
Origin:
1730–40; of uncert. orig.; variously identified with Angola or the Gola, a Liberian ethnic group
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Gul·lah   (gŭl'ə)   
n.  

  1. One of a group of people of African ancestry inhabiting the Sea Islands and coastal areas of South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida.

  2. The creolized language of the Gullahs, based on English but including vocabulary elements and grammatical features from several African languages and spoken in isolated communities from Georgetown in eastern South Carolina to northern Florida.


[Perhaps alteration of Angola or from Gola, a people of Sierra Leone and Liberia.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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