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Linguistic change in GullahBook 1989 • Nichols, Patricia Causey
Sea Islanders • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This is a study of linguistic change in Gullah, the language spoken by the vast majority of African-Americans living along the Georgia and South Carolina coasts and the adjacent Sea Islands. The author attempts to show how rapid change in this creole...