• West African Pidgin English and is strongly influenced by British English, Gullah, African American Vernacular English, Jamaican Creole, Akan, Igbo and Yoruba...
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  • Wolof, and Fula. Gullah has been described as a “linguistic bridge between Africa and the New World” (“Gullah Culture”). The Gullah culture is deeply...
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  • give rise to the English-based creoles that developed there, including the Gullah language in coastal South Carolina and Georgia, Bahamian Dialect, Jamaican...
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  • United States between the 18th and early 19th century. In particular, the Gullah people of partial Sierra Leonean ancestry, fled their owners and settled...
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  • spoken in Barbados Belizean Creole, English-based creole spoken in Belize Gullah language, spoken in the coastal region of the US states of North and South...
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  • Patois (Jamaican Creole), Sranan Tongo (Surinamese Creole), Bajan Creole and Gullah language, but it has its own distinctive character. It also shares some...
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  • English-based hybrid languages (creoles or pidgins) Afro-Seminole Creole Gullah language/Sea Island Creole English, South-East US related to Bahamian creole...
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    Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Suriname. It is also one of the sources of the Gullah language, which formed in the Low Country and Sea Islands of the United...
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  • English (Lucayan Archipelago) Bahamian Creole Turks and Caicos Creole English Gullah language (Sea Islands Creole English) Afro-Seminole Creole Southern Virgin...
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    pidgin) Afro-Seminole Creole (variety of Gullah) Haida Jargon Kutenai Jargon Guajiro-Spanish mixed language Lingua francas Ocaneechi (spoken in Virginia...
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    States and northern Mexico. This sign language was used historically as a lingua franca, notably for trading among tribes; it is still used for story-telling...
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  • Relations Revisited". Retrieved 13 August 2015. Transatlantic linkage: The Gullah/Geechee-Sierra Leone Connection. Retrieved December 29, 2011, to 20:51 pm...
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  • including Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic. In addition, English serves as the lingua franca of Israel. Though many Jewish languages are not genetically related...
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  • River Region. Words of Efik origin can be found in the vocabulary of the Gullah Geechee people of the United States. Within the diaspora in Cuba, a creolised...
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    Southeast Asia. ASL is also widely learned as a second language, serving as a lingua franca. ASL is most closely related to French Sign Language (LSF). It has...
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  • between West Africans and West Central/Central Africans did occur, creating a lingua franca, however the culture of African Americans was heavily affected by...
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  • says the immediate future tense (for example "I'ma") originated in the Gullah language (an English creole), which uses "a-" instead of "-ing" for this...
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    their mostly English vocabulary with some loan words. Furthermore, it is a lingua franca among American Jews (particularly Hasidic Jewry), concentrated in...
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    languages to Freetown, such as Gullah[citation needed] from the Low Country and African American Vernacular English. Their lingua franca was a strong influence...
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    Jacksonville's Gullah Geechee heritage". East Coast Greenway. Retrieved April 7, 2024. Nelson, Keitha (February 6, 2023). "The history of the Gullah Geechee...
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    was being used as a secondary dialect and replacing Cantonese as their lingua franca. Chinese Americans teach their children Chinese for a variety of...
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    S. (2014). Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory among Gullah/Geechee Women. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822376705. Heywood...
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    African Americans were from South Carolina and the Sea Islands, of the Gullah culture; others were from states along the eastern seaboard up to New England...
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    future where Latin Americans have colonized the galaxy and Spanglish is the lingua franca among the galaxy's sentient species. H. G. Wells's future history...
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  • Male Revolt and Haitian Revolution. Carrying their traditions among the Gullah as late as the 19th century. They consisted of black Muslim ethnic groups...
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  • English, RP, Scottish English, African-American Vernacular English, and Gullah, according to Reaser and Torbert (2004). The Bahamian accent is traditionally...
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  • in its vocabulary. There is some evidence for a Chinookan-Nuu-chah-nulth lingua franca in the writings of John Jewitt and in what is known as the Barclay...
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    important language. In its simplified pidgin form, it was adopted as a regional lingua franca of New England and Long Island. As a native language, its dialects...
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