Take a tour of Edisto Island
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Gullah Language of Edisto Island
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This video shows a portion of Edisto Island that has remained relatively segregated. The people who inhabit these areas of Edisto are typically people who have retired to the island or have built beach houses on the island over the past 30-40 years. Most African Americans use a different portion of the island for beach purposes and are charged a fee as part of the state park.
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Gullah (also called Sea Island Creole English and Geechee) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community), an African-American population living on the Sea Islands and in the coastal regions of the American States of South Carolina, Georgia and northeast Florida. Dialects of essentially the same language are spoken in the Bahamas.
The Gullah language is based on English with strong influences from West and Central African languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gullah_language *Note: Geechee is a derogatory term similar to using the "N" word, though you may here locals use the term. |