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  2. Gullah - Wikipedia

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    The Gullah people and their language are also called Geechee, which may be derived from the name of the Ogeechee River near Savannah, Georgia. [3] Gullah is a term that was originally used to designate the creole dialect of English spoken by Gullah and Geechee people. Over time, its speakers have used this term to formally refer to their creole ...

  3. Geechie - Wikipedia

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    Geechie (and various other spellings, such as Geechy or Geechee) is a word referring to the U.S. Lowcountry ethnocultural group of the descendants of enslaved West Africans who retained their cultural and linguistic history, otherwise known as the Gullah people and Gullah language (aka, Geechie Gullah, or Gullah-Geechee, etc).

  4. Gullah language - Wikipedia

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    A woman speaking Gullah and English. Gullah (also called Gullah-English, [2] Sea Island Creole English, [3] and Geechee [4]) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community), an African American population living in coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia (including urban Charleston and Savannah) as well as extreme northeastern Florida and ...

  5. Descendants of enslaved people could lose inherited Ga. land ...

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    Hogg Hummock is one of just a few communities in the South of people known as Gullah, or Geechee, in Georgia. DARIEN, Ga. (AP) — Descendants of enslaved people living on a Georgia island vowed ...

  6. Slave descendants are suing to fight zoning changes they say ...

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    Descendants of enslaved island populations in the South became known as Gullah, or Geechee in Georgia, whose long separation from the mainland meant they retained much of their African heritage ...

  7. Georgia slave descendants submit signatures to fight zoning ...

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    Gullah-Geechee communities are scattered along the Southeast coast from North Carolina to Florida, where they have endured since their enslaved ancestors were freed by the Civil War. Scholars say ...

  8. Daughters of the Dust - Wikipedia

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    Their ancestors were brought there as enslaved people centuries ago, and the islanders developed a language—known as Gullah or Sea Island Creole English—and culture that was creolized from West Africans of Ibo, Yoruba, Mende, and Twi origin, along with some influence from the Bakongo of central Africa as well as the cultures and languages ...

  9. Descendants of enslaved people could lose inherited Ga. land ...

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    Hogg Hummock is one of just a few communities in the South of people known as Gullah, or Geechee, in The post Descendants of enslaved people could lose inherited Ga. land after zoning change ...