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DOI: 10.2307/455387
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Gullah and Barbadian. Origins and Relationships

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“…Their English-based creole language contains many African words and significant influences from African languages in its grammar and sentence structure. Properly referred to as ‘Sea Island Creole’, the Gullah language is related to Jamaican Creole, Barbadian Dialect, Bahamian Dialect and the Krio language of Sierra Leone in West Africa (Hancock 1980; Turner, Mille & Montgomery 1974). …”
Section: Gullahs In South Carolinamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Their English-based creole language contains many African words and significant influences from African languages in its grammar and sentence structure. Properly referred to as ‘Sea Island Creole’, the Gullah language is related to Jamaican Creole, Barbadian Dialect, Bahamian Dialect and the Krio language of Sierra Leone in West Africa (Hancock 1980; Turner, Mille & Montgomery 1974). …”
Section: Gullahs In South Carolinamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For purposes of convenience, Barbados is included in this list. However, the extent to which the variety spoken there exhibits creole features is a topic of debate (e.g., Cassidy, 1980;Hancock, 1980;Rickford, 1992;Rickford & Handler, 1994).…”
Section: N O T E Smentioning
confidence: 99%
“…AAVE was never itself a creole, but it was created by Africans, and bears the distinctive marks of that creation. Scholars like Hancock (1980), Mufwene (1992) Schneider (1989) and others have long recognized that AAVE is a cre ation in its own right, distinct from both SWVE (though closely related to it) and Gullah, to which it may well owe some of its features. In keeping with these positions, I believe that the scenario I have outlined here offers a more likely explanation both for the origins of AAVE and its distinctive blend of structural features than either the strict dialectologist position or the traditional decreolization hypothesis.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 96%