Gullah-Geechee

Facts

  • Language: Gullah-Geechee
  • Alternate names: Geechee, Gullah, Sea Island Creole
  • Language code: gul
  • Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, West Germanic, North Sea Germanic, Anglo-Frisian, Anglic, Later Anglic, Middle-Modern English, Macro-English, Guinea Coast Creole English, Caribbean English Creole, Eastern Caribbean Creole, Gullah-Nevis-Antigua, Gullah
  • Creole language
  • Number of speakers: 300
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    Linguistic influences from Fula (See: [[Fulfulde, Adamawa]]), Mende (See: [[Mende]]), upper Guinea coast, and Gambia River area (Hancock 1987).

    Gullah-Geechee is spoken in USA, North America.