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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 ...
The effort to translate the Bible into Gullah, a creole language spoken by residents of the Sea Islands off the eastern coast of the southern United States, began in 1979 with a team of Gullah speakers from the Penn Center. They were assisted by Pat and Claude Sharpe, translation consultants for Wycliffe Bible Translators.
The Gullah have also struggled to preserve their traditional culture in the face of much more contact with modern culture and media. In 1979, a translation of the New Testament into the Gullah language was begun. [32] The American Bible Society published De Nyew Testament in 2005.
It is estimated by Wycliffe Bible Translators that translation may be required in 1,268 languages where no work is currently known to be in progress. They also estimate that there are currently around 3,283 languages in 167 countries which have active Bible translation projects (with or without some portion already published).
There are 1 million Gullah Geechee people in the Gullah Geechee corridor, Hemingway said. Hemingway said that more than 80% of African-Americans can trace their roots back to the corridor.
Gullah language, spoken in the coastal region of the US states of North and South Carolina, Georgia and northeast Florida; Guyanese Creole, English-based, spoken in Guyana; Jamaican Patois, English-based creole, spoken in Jamaica; Ndyuka, English-based creole spoken in Suriname, the only creole that uses its own alphabet, called the Afaka script
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).
Clarence Thomas grew up speaking a language of the enslaved on the shores of Georgia. He'd become the most powerful Black man in America, using the powers of the Supreme Court to hold back his own ...