Also Known As:
Geechee, Gullah, Sea Island Creole
Dialects & Varieties
- Gullah
- Geechee
- Afro-Seminole
Gullah Geechee culture: Respected, understood and striving: Sixty years after Lorenzo Dow Turner's masterpiece, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect
Gullah Geechee culture: Respected, understood and striving: Sixty years after Lorenzo Dow Turner's masterpiece, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect
Severely Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 4
Less than half of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing at an accelerated pace.
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Domains of Use
Domain Of Use 4
Used mainly only in the home and/or with family, and may not be the primary language even in these domains for many community members.
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Transmission
Transmission 3
Some adults in the community are speakers, but the language is not spoken by children.
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Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
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Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
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Location and Context
Countries
Gullah Geechee communities are found along the U.S. Atlantic low country from North Carolina to to northern Florida, and in Northeastern U.S. cities. Afro-Seminole Creole is spoken by Black Seminole communities are found in Oklahoma (Seminole Freedmen), Texas (Scouts), northern Mexico (Mascogos), the Bahamas, and Cuba. (Campbell, 2011)
Location Description
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Government Support
Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission (U.S. National Park Service)
Institutional Support
The Penn Center
Speakers' Attitude
Proud of their language and culture, willing to share it in community activities and public festivals; enthusiastically pressing on from reading to speaking; economically capitalizing on artistic, culinary, historical, and linguistic aspects of the culture (Campbell, 2011)
Other Languages Used By The Community
English
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
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Recent Resources
Published by the American Bible Society (New York, 2005)