Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect

(Part of the Southern Classics Series)

by Lorenzo Dow Turner

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1570034524

ISBN13:9781570034527

Release Date:July 2002

Publisher:University of South Carolina Press

Length:392 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"

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