The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson

The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson

What’s Gullah?

The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson

Elizabeth Martinez-Gibson

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This chapter brings up interesting points about Gullah, a creole blend of African languages with English, developed in the slave communities of the coastal South Atlantic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Martinez-Gibson, Elizabeth. What’s Gullah?. The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 191-195 Apr 2012. ISBN 9781908049490. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=20801. Date accessed: 26 Apr 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.20801. Apr 2012

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