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Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect

Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect

Turner, Lorenzo Dow
Mille, Katherine Wyly
Montgomery, Michael B.

Paperback

Series: Southern Classics

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ISBN10: 1570034524
ISBN13: 9781570034527
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: Jul 31 2002
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.23
Language: English

The first--and still most important--book on Gullah language

A unique creole language spoken on the coastal islands and adjacent mainland of South Carolina and Georgia, Gullah existed as an isolated and largely ignored linguistic phenomenon until the publication of Lorenzo Dow Turner's landmark volume Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect. In his classic treatise, Turner, the first professionally trained African American linguist, focused on a people whose language had long been misunderstood, lifted a shroud that had obscured the true history of Gullah, and demonstrated that it drew important linguistic features directly from the languages of West Africa. Initially published in 1949, this groundbreaking work of Afrocentric scholarship opened American minds to a little-known culture while initiating a means for the Gullah people to reclaim and value their past. The book presents a reference point for today's discussions about ever-present language varieties, Ebonics, and education. For readers today the book offers important reminders about the subtleties and power of racial and cultural prejudice.

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