单词 | Gullah |
释义 | Gullah/ˈɡʌlə /noun (plural same or Gullahs) 1A member of a black people living on the coast of South Carolina and nearby islands.As the tour concludes, you will see St. Philip's Church - the oldest congregation south of the Mason-Dixon Line - where, Gullahs say, God lives....
2 [mass noun] The Creole language of the Gullah, having an English base with elements from various West African languages. It has about 125,000 speakers.Drawing on the lowcountry's culture of Gullah - a Creole language with African and English elements spoken by slaves and their descendants - Brown gives tourists chills with his description of boo hags....
adjective Relating to the Gullah or their language.The Gullah people are direct descendents of these slaves and their language, a mix of African dialects and Elizabethan English, is considered to be the only surviving English-based patois in North America....
OriginPerhaps a shortening of Angola, or from Gola, the name of an agricultural people of Liberia and Sierra Leone. |
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