a member of a dark-skinned people living on the Sea Islands or in the coastal regions of South Carolina, Georgia, and NE Florida
2.
the creolized English spoken by these people
Gullah in American English
(ˈgʌlə)
US
noun
1.
a member of a group of former slaves and their descendants living on the Sea Islands and in adjacent isolated coastal areas of South Carolina and Georgia
2.
the English creole spoken by the Gullahs, containing vocabulary and grammatical features from various West African languages
3. Loosely
any variety of black speech of coastal South Carolina or Georgia
Word origin
after ? Gola (Gula), tribal group in Liberia, or < ? Ngola, tribal group in the Hamba basin in Angola