what i dont think people realize is that bahamian people traded textiles by using taht port so when u put island folk and english together the people from chuck town is what u get...
I find this fascinating, I myself am an occasional speaker of Nigerian pidgin English and in honesty, i found no interest in African American culture but I have found myself surprised at the striking similarities between Gullah and Nigerian Pidigin English. Seeing this has brought upon a further fascination within myself to learn more about the Gullah culture and African American culture :D
Ah de weht man, Ah go fo sabi Krio...and I'm lucky, because studies on Gullah show that it shares many Krio words, which would make sense, since the Gullah came originally from Sierra Leone. (for those who don't know, it's a tiny West African country, and Krio is the national language) There's also a few Mende and Temne terms, also ethnic groups in Sierra Leone.
Does a white person learning Gullah bring him/her closer to people of color? Is it inherently an act of respect to speak to people in their language? Could the experience of learning the Gullah people's language cure a racist's misguided mind?
Gullah come from Charleston SC yall aint gullah in da a yall boi look up a video of a young charleston dude and listen!!!! This is where the slaves were brought striaght off da boat!! In the video he takin dem on a tour he goin show dem boy the old slave market where all the white and black people go to party, and where we were once sold.
@BigSheats I lived on the Navy Base down in the Charleston SC area & when we went to Charles Towne Landing- there was an exhibition where they had these people speaking and chanting. It doesn't look like they have that any longer, but I have been trying to figure out what language it was. It didn't have as much English sounding words as I have seen on the Gullah-Geechee speaking/songs. It was captivating and I loved it If you have any info, I would really appreciate it! :) Thank you!
I am a Geechee, and I'm proud of it, I wouldn't have it any other way, when I was young, growing up in Cross, South Carolina, I was taught at an early age how to survive by using the bare essentials, no washer and dryer, cooking on a wood stove, and how to live, I am so thankful for that
My mama's a Cajun from Southwest Louisiana and my dad speaks Gullah. I grew up in Lexington, Ky. (Mama works with horses) I got made fun of a lot in school. You want to hear a funny accent, you should have heard me from ages 1-18. I finally got over it, but am somewhat regretting it...
Gullah-Geechee is the language spoken in the sea islands and lowcountry of South Carolina and Georgia. It's a Creole language that is a combination of english and west africa dialects... beautiful language, but it is becoming extinct.
@whartwa i live in charleston, pretty much every black person talks this way or similar to it and its fucking annoying because nobody can understand them
@whartwa Gullah/Geechie is actually a culture... It is the people, the language, the ethnic group... etc... You only named a few locations where the actual language is spoken. (I am part Geechee..) My grandmother (who is Geechee/Haiti/Cherokee) is from Louisianna, and there are also Geechee located out there.
I just wanted to state something that was very obvious to me (i am sure not many others), but you honestly sound as though you got your information straight from wiki.
@NUASHIM The Gullah people were originally concentrated in the Tidewater of Virginia in pockets throughout the Inner Banks of North Carolina low country, where indigo and low land cotton was mostly grown, there were a large concentration in the Cape Fear country in North Carolina where rice and indigo was king, then in pockets from there, through Georgetown, SC, Charleston, Savannah, and then in the St. Augustine/Jacksonvilee, Fl area. Its a dying culture, the largest concentration in SC/Ga
Respond to this video... I hate it when people restrict the Gullah culture to just "Charleston". The Gullah culture flourished wherever there were rice and indigo plantations in the 1600's because of the slave trade from West Afican nations that spoke a mixture of their native tongues adopted european colonizer, and slave traders words and created a "Pidgin English" or Patrois in French, this was spoken first in the states of Va, NC, SC, Ga, Fla and then later in Al,MS,La
Of course there are different variations of English Creole Languages, the Gullah language became a distinct dialect because influences from rice growers and later lowland cotton, whereever the slave owners established, thats where the Gullah people concentrated. Up until the emancipation SC was very reluctant to change and stuck to it's money making rice and long strain cotton crops on the sea islands, this is what began the isolation trend of the Gullah people along the US coast.
@dioisfreakinamazing6 I agree... my mama is geechee and when i was a child growing up, I was always ashamed of her accent and vowed to never speak that way and now I wish I never done that :(
If we as people could cherish what God has given us our WORLD/Planet could be such a better place.
The struggle remains.
Help Protect History...it is a gift to cherish and love. Not just a WATERFRONT SITE WITH A DOCK. It is someone's Home their love their history DO NOT destroy the land this way. Because underneath the condo build is still the dirt where someone loved, had a family, dreamed ,laughed etc.
I not only love "THE SOUTH" but I adore it. I am from South Carolina my family is from the south as well. My wish would be for people to remember we as in Southerns...we started America. Both races white and blacks. I am white and I am willing because I care enough to save THE SOUTH for all of us. I pray for The Gullah's to stand strong to keep their land and their history. I admire this quality in mankind to VALUE History. I admire the strength to save what is theirs. Amen
I am studying American history and was amazed to learn that slaves were amused that their masters couldn't understand this language. They could talk behind their backs and even pass family information from plantation to plantation.
gullah is starting to die here in the lowcountry. it used to be so widespread among the blacks here, you could tell the difference now from about 20 years ago.
used to live in ATL. They speak Gullah there too, except its less intense and a regular person from the North like me can understand what they're saying, but its pretty much Gullah.
The only reason I can half-way understand is because of growing up around some of my Jamaican relatives. I was surprised to see how close Gullah is to Jamaican Patwa. You even use some of the terms like unna and ooman.
Dude, the way people in Atlanta sound nothing like Gullah. The intonation on hard vowels is much less syrupy and the speech patterns are much less lyrical. I know I'm nitpicking, but I grew up around people who spoke like this and the nuances of the speech sound much different to my ears.
If you heard people in ATL talking like this, then they were probably from the GA sea islands.
I agree Unkerlant. I am from bluffton, SC. and several of my best friend's grandparents spoke Geeche/Gullah. My family is of english decent so my elders spoke differently, so as a young man we would sit and listen to the "grans" tell all kinds of stories and folk lore. I absolutely adore this language and culture.
I live in Atlanta now and have not seen or heard the Gullah dialect or culture. The Atlanta cultures are rooted from the mountain people and the farmers. more of an Irish influence.
Metro atlanta has the 2nd largest black pop after new york. ATL beats chicago which is 3rd. GA had the 2nd highist slave population prior to the Civil War after virginia. Most plantations where in central and southern GA like the albany area. ATL drew from the mountains and lower counties but not directly from the coast. Since slaves from the low counties came in from the coast, the low countries drew from coast anyway but there decreolization so ATL just gets AAVE and not gullah!
I'm Gullah-Geechee from Liberty County Ga livin in ATL. When I first moved to Northeast Georgia, I couldn't understand the dialect...it sounded like what I heard in Alabama and Tennessee. AAVE more accurately describes the vernacular of black communities in Atlanta. Gullah-Geechees are found in the coastal areas of Georgia and SC.
Northeast Georgia is still ATL but its not the heart of the black population. its central fulton, dekalb and clayton counties
Gullah is a English and african based creole language like those spoken in West Africa and the Caribbean at one point all african americans where able to speak in a similar dialect before decreolization over time. AAVE is a decreolize english-african creole that common spoke by most blacks is what im saying blacks in the coastal area where able to hold on.
cracker is not a racist term, it signified the slave master and the sound his whip would make as he beat our ancestors, it amazes me how easily we forgave the white folks for their past crimes, and they have yet to atone for their behavior
@MrWeyes: There are plenty others who still use nigger and its variation nigga, So cracker or its variation red-neck is also still in use by both black and white. I am not defending anyone by this statement however ignorance and keeping a culture can be misunderstood just like anything else. Sometimes you have to let this stuff go.
"When someone steps on your Puma, let is slide. Because there is no sex in the Champagne Room." -Chris Rock
Sha: get over what? I missed your point. Whites voted for Obama? And? Whites also faught the civil war to end slavery. But did that stop Jim Crow Lynchings & segregation?
Sha: also did you know that the day after the election all the gun stores in Middle America & the south were sold out? All the whites went to arm themselves because a black man was elected. Night Line did a story about it. So I missed your point.Because obama is president means what?Dont be so gullable.
Actually all the gun stores were sold out because there were widespread reports of gun laws becoming stricter. Since ex post facto laws make it illegal to take away previously legal guns, people were trying to "get them while they still could". They would have done the same had Hillary been elected.
JRP: no actually the gun store thing was a response to Obama. maybe not because he is Black alone. But because when he was a senator he voted four times to ban Weapons by civilians. he wants a police state. research it! Hillary didnt vote that way against guns. People were afraid obama would disarm them & close the stores. So yes you are half correct.But trust me if Hillary or Mccain won those gun stores would not have sold out.
WOW, That shows you how ignorant those people are. Gun laws are established for the most part by state and even by city in some cases. I'm sure you can recall Kennesaw passing certain Gun Laws. Texas was pushing through a law to allow guns on college campuses. If that happened, no child of mine would go to school there. But those same people would be intimidate if every Black person got a gun too. Maybe every citizen when they turn 18 should be required to carry a gun to slow dwn pop. growth.
i not gonna lie im a jamaican and i cannot understand jack-shit of what he's saying???
manovrsb 2 months ago
what i dont think people realize is that bahamian people traded textiles by using taht port so when u put island folk and english together the people from chuck town is what u get...
paradiseonearth0818 5 months ago
I find this fascinating, I myself am an occasional speaker of Nigerian pidgin English and in honesty, i found no interest in African American culture but I have found myself surprised at the striking similarities between Gullah and Nigerian Pidigin English. Seeing this has brought upon a further fascination within myself to learn more about the Gullah culture and African American culture :D
awesomeirlable 8 months ago 5
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@siabroker i could care less about monkey languages.
nomercy31 8 months ago
if he did that on a subway or bus, he's just some rambling crackhead. no disrespect to gullah or geechee culture. i'm just sayin...
miraeja 10 months ago
Ah de weht man, Ah go fo sabi Krio...and I'm lucky, because studies on Gullah show that it shares many Krio words, which would make sense, since the Gullah came originally from Sierra Leone. (for those who don't know, it's a tiny West African country, and Krio is the national language) There's also a few Mende and Temne terms, also ethnic groups in Sierra Leone.
DialetheianMode 1 year ago
Does a white person learning Gullah bring him/her closer to people of color? Is it inherently an act of respect to speak to people in their language? Could the experience of learning the Gullah people's language cure a racist's misguided mind?
DialetheianMode 1 year ago 2
I am a child of the Geechees, the Gullah Nation and So Proud....
Browns and Steplights, STAND UP!!!!!
manwomanboogie 1 year ago
Gullah come from Charleston SC yall aint gullah in da a yall boi look up a video of a young charleston dude and listen!!!! This is where the slaves were brought striaght off da boat!! In the video he takin dem on a tour he goin show dem boy the old slave market where all the white and black people go to party, and where we were once sold.
BigSheats 1 year ago
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Okie267 1 year ago
@BigSheats I lived on the Navy Base down in the Charleston SC area & when we went to Charles Towne Landing- there was an exhibition where they had these people speaking and chanting. It doesn't look like they have that any longer, but I have been trying to figure out what language it was. It didn't have as much English sounding words as I have seen on the Gullah-Geechee speaking/songs. It was captivating and I loved it If you have any info, I would really appreciate it! :) Thank you!
Chloesaysmeow 6 months ago
Anyone familiar with the show Gullah Gullah island, is that related to the Gullah people or area in any way???
nmania3 1 year ago
I am a Geechee, and I'm proud of it, I wouldn't have it any other way, when I was young, growing up in Cross, South Carolina, I was taught at an early age how to survive by using the bare essentials, no washer and dryer, cooking on a wood stove, and how to live, I am so thankful for that
shaqdulla 1 year ago
that´s the first time i can hear gullah, the
language of the Uncle Remus and his friends stories, i´ve this book but i can´t
understand all the text, greetings from
Mexico...!
DAKPLAT 1 year ago
My mama's a Cajun from Southwest Louisiana and my dad speaks Gullah. I grew up in Lexington, Ky. (Mama works with horses) I got made fun of a lot in school. You want to hear a funny accent, you should have heard me from ages 1-18. I finally got over it, but am somewhat regretting it...
dioisfreakinamazing6 2 years ago
what is "Gullah"? i got a tape about a Gullah story teller. who are they and where do they come from in America?
oluwalogbon58 2 years ago
Gullah-Geechee is the language spoken in the sea islands and lowcountry of South Carolina and Georgia. It's a Creole language that is a combination of english and west africa dialects... beautiful language, but it is becoming extinct.
whartwa 1 year ago 12
@whartwa i live in charleston, pretty much every black person talks this way or similar to it and its fucking annoying because nobody can understand them
Pooternackle 1 year ago
@whartwa Gullah/Geechie is actually a culture... It is the people, the language, the ethnic group... etc... You only named a few locations where the actual language is spoken. (I am part Geechee..) My grandmother (who is Geechee/Haiti/Cherokee) is from Louisianna, and there are also Geechee located out there.
I just wanted to state something that was very obvious to me (i am sure not many others), but you honestly sound as though you got your information straight from wiki.
lol?
NUASHIM 6 months ago
@NUASHIM The Gullah people were originally concentrated in the Tidewater of Virginia in pockets throughout the Inner Banks of North Carolina low country, where indigo and low land cotton was mostly grown, there were a large concentration in the Cape Fear country in North Carolina where rice and indigo was king, then in pockets from there, through Georgetown, SC, Charleston, Savannah, and then in the St. Augustine/Jacksonvilee, Fl area. Its a dying culture, the largest concentration in SC/Ga
artist40hou 3 months ago
Respond to this video... I hate it when people restrict the Gullah culture to just "Charleston". The Gullah culture flourished wherever there were rice and indigo plantations in the 1600's because of the slave trade from West Afican nations that spoke a mixture of their native tongues adopted european colonizer, and slave traders words and created a "Pidgin English" or Patrois in French, this was spoken first in the states of Va, NC, SC, Ga, Fla and then later in Al,MS,La
artist40hou 3 months ago
Of course there are different variations of English Creole Languages, the Gullah language became a distinct dialect because influences from rice growers and later lowland cotton, whereever the slave owners established, thats where the Gullah people concentrated. Up until the emancipation SC was very reluctant to change and stuck to it's money making rice and long strain cotton crops on the sea islands, this is what began the isolation trend of the Gullah people along the US coast.
artist40hou 3 months ago
@dioisfreakinamazing6 I agree... my mama is geechee and when i was a child growing up, I was always ashamed of her accent and vowed to never speak that way and now I wish I never done that :(
Negritabonita7 1 year ago
this is my daddy!
HEYitstaybaybay 2 years ago
If we as people could cherish what God has given us our WORLD/Planet could be such a better place.
The struggle remains.
Help Protect History...it is a gift to cherish and love. Not just a WATERFRONT SITE WITH A DOCK. It is someone's Home their love their history DO NOT destroy the land this way. Because underneath the condo build is still the dirt where someone loved, had a family, dreamed ,laughed etc.
Jimilynn 2 years ago
I not only love "THE SOUTH" but I adore it. I am from South Carolina my family is from the south as well. My wish would be for people to remember we as in Southerns...we started America. Both races white and blacks. I am white and I am willing because I care enough to save THE SOUTH for all of us. I pray for The Gullah's to stand strong to keep their land and their history. I admire this quality in mankind to VALUE History. I admire the strength to save what is theirs. Amen
Jimilynn 2 years ago
I am studying American history and was amazed to learn that slaves were amused that their masters couldn't understand this language. They could talk behind their backs and even pass family information from plantation to plantation.
tomgl1999 2 years ago
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this is so dumb...wow!
jvosko 3 years ago
gullah is starting to die here in the lowcountry. it used to be so widespread among the blacks here, you could tell the difference now from about 20 years ago.
Wojjam84 3 years ago
used to live in ATL. They speak Gullah there too, except its less intense and a regular person from the North like me can understand what they're saying, but its pretty much Gullah.
jnyerere 3 years ago
The only reason I can half-way understand is because of growing up around some of my Jamaican relatives. I was surprised to see how close Gullah is to Jamaican Patwa. You even use some of the terms like unna and ooman.
wmthomas28 3 years ago 11
@wmthomas28 its the African diaspora!!!! Gotta love Black people!
HipHopIsInMyNYBlood 1 year ago 2
@wmthomas28 Their are also alot of jjamaican words that are ghanian also.
duckunu. dundus. the jamaican usage of "se" as a subject marker. all come from different ghanian languages.
also what we know in jamaica as obeah is actually the yang of ghanian religion
but patois has other african influences like the word "unnu" is distinctly nigerian.
mitalkditingsdem 1 year ago
Dude, the way people in Atlanta sound nothing like Gullah. The intonation on hard vowels is much less syrupy and the speech patterns are much less lyrical. I know I'm nitpicking, but I grew up around people who spoke like this and the nuances of the speech sound much different to my ears.
If you heard people in ATL talking like this, then they were probably from the GA sea islands.
Unkerlant 3 years ago
I agree Unkerlant. I am from bluffton, SC. and several of my best friend's grandparents spoke Geeche/Gullah. My family is of english decent so my elders spoke differently, so as a young man we would sit and listen to the "grans" tell all kinds of stories and folk lore. I absolutely adore this language and culture.
I live in Atlanta now and have not seen or heard the Gullah dialect or culture. The Atlanta cultures are rooted from the mountain people and the farmers. more of an Irish influence.
jrpirkle 2 years ago
Metro atlanta has the 2nd largest black pop after new york. ATL beats chicago which is 3rd. GA had the 2nd highist slave population prior to the Civil War after virginia. Most plantations where in central and southern GA like the albany area. ATL drew from the mountains and lower counties but not directly from the coast. Since slaves from the low counties came in from the coast, the low countries drew from coast anyway but there decreolization so ATL just gets AAVE and not gullah!
draethegreat 2 years ago
I'm Gullah-Geechee from Liberty County Ga livin in ATL. When I first moved to Northeast Georgia, I couldn't understand the dialect...it sounded like what I heard in Alabama and Tennessee. AAVE more accurately describes the vernacular of black communities in Atlanta. Gullah-Geechees are found in the coastal areas of Georgia and SC.
HazzardCountyRecords 2 years ago
Northeast Georgia is still ATL but its not the heart of the black population. its central fulton, dekalb and clayton counties
Gullah is a English and african based creole language like those spoken in West Africa and the Caribbean at one point all african americans where able to speak in a similar dialect before decreolization over time. AAVE is a decreolize english-african creole that common spoke by most blacks is what im saying blacks in the coastal area where able to hold on.
draethegreat 2 years ago
THATS SO TRUE GULLAH TALK MORE ORGINAL
cheeveka3 2 years ago
Black People are so amazing! So much richness in Culture we bring to the world.
TheSonsOfLight 3 years ago
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I know thats right!That is why the crackers hate us!They know the truth but do not want to accept that they are not as great as they think.
tarchea 3 years ago
How you gonna expect open-mindedness from people, when you yourself use a racist word like cracker... :S
MrWeyes 3 years ago 5
cracker is not a racist term, it signified the slave master and the sound his whip would make as he beat our ancestors, it amazes me how easily we forgave the white folks for their past crimes, and they have yet to atone for their behavior
perseveranceprevails 3 years ago
@MrWeyes: There are plenty others who still use nigger and its variation nigga, So cracker or its variation red-neck is also still in use by both black and white. I am not defending anyone by this statement however ignorance and keeping a culture can be misunderstood just like anything else. Sometimes you have to let this stuff go.
"When someone steps on your Puma, let is slide. Because there is no sex in the Champagne Room." -Chris Rock
AnimeSpydr 1 year ago
terchea: its okay because we shouldnt even care whether they accept the truth aslong as we know what time it is. Peace sis.
TheSonsOfLight 3 years ago
GET OVER IT. Jeez. White people voted in Obama.
Shanniquitie 3 years ago
Sha: get over what? I missed your point. Whites voted for Obama? And? Whites also faught the civil war to end slavery. But did that stop Jim Crow Lynchings & segregation?
TheSonsOfLight 3 years ago 3
Sha: also did you know that the day after the election all the gun stores in Middle America & the south were sold out? All the whites went to arm themselves because a black man was elected. Night Line did a story about it. So I missed your point.Because obama is president means what?Dont be so gullable.
TheSonsOfLight 3 years ago 3
Actually all the gun stores were sold out because there were widespread reports of gun laws becoming stricter. Since ex post facto laws make it illegal to take away previously legal guns, people were trying to "get them while they still could". They would have done the same had Hillary been elected.
JRPeyesatsne 3 years ago
JRP: no actually the gun store thing was a response to Obama. maybe not because he is Black alone. But because when he was a senator he voted four times to ban Weapons by civilians. he wants a police state. research it! Hillary didnt vote that way against guns. People were afraid obama would disarm them & close the stores. So yes you are half correct.But trust me if Hillary or Mccain won those gun stores would not have sold out.
TheSonsOfLight 2 years ago
WOW, That shows you how ignorant those people are. Gun laws are established for the most part by state and even by city in some cases. I'm sure you can recall Kennesaw passing certain Gun Laws. Texas was pushing through a law to allow guns on college campuses. If that happened, no child of mine would go to school there. But those same people would be intimidate if every Black person got a gun too. Maybe every citizen when they turn 18 should be required to carry a gun to slow dwn pop. growth.
dvirgil 2 years ago