Gullah 101

Dude speaking Gullah at the Boone Hall plantation in Charleston, South Carolina.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• gullah
• boone
• hall
• plantation
• charleston
• south
• carolina

[whartwa]

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.

[wmthomas28]

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.

[manovrsb]

i not gonna lie im a jamaican and i cannot understand jack-shit of what he's saying???

[artist40hou]

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]

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]

@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

[paradiseonearth0818]

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...

[NUASHIM]

@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?

[Chloesaysmeow]

@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!

[awesomeirlable]

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

[nomercy31]

@siabroker i could care less about monkey languages.

[miraeja]

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...