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单词 gullah
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Gullahn.

Brit. /ˈɡʌlə/, U.S. /ˈɡələ/
Forms: Also Golla, Goolah.
Etymology: Conjectured to be either a shortening of Angola, or from a Liberian group of peoples known as Golas.
U.S.
Used attributively or absol. to designate black people living on the sea-islands and tide-water coastline of South Carolina and Georgia, and the dialect spoken by them.
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1739 S.-Carolina Gaz. 12 May 2/2 Run away a short well set Negro Man, named Golla Harry.
1822 Acct. Intended Insurrection among Blacks of City (Corporation of Charleston) 22 These disclosures..were obtained from Harry Haig (whose confession and subsequent testimony went to implicate a corps of Gullah or Angola negroes).
1835 W. G. Simms Partisan 224 To their arts the Gullah and the Ebo negroes..added their spells and magic in no stinted quantities.
1838 Southern Literary Messenger 4 641/1 The etymology of all which terms..is quite as untraceable as that of any terms in the Goolah negro dialect.
1896 J. G. Williams Ole Plantation Pref. p. v The older ones of that set of negroes..speak as pure Gullah as their grandfathers... They seem to have been scarcely affected in their low-country Gullah speech [etc.].
1908 S. Atlantic Q. Oct. 339 The vocabulary of our Gullah patois is..five times as great.
1908 S. Atlantic Q. Oct. 339 To some Gullah remains a closed book.
1931 E. Linklater Juan in Amer. ii. vii. 111 They spoke mostly in the argot of Naples, with here and there a little Czech, Finnish, Gullah, and Yiddish.
1957 W. C. Handy Father of Blues viii. 116 A humourous Negro custom that could be traced to the Gullahs and from them all the way back to Africa.
1969 Times 19 July 9/5 Gullah is a form of creolized English taken to the United States by slaves from West Africa,..rather than a regular dialect of black American English.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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