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Name:
Sea Island Creole English
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Geechee; Gullah; Gulla
Number of speakers:
250,000 (2000). 7,000 to 10,000 monolinguals. 10,000 in New York City (Holm 1989). Ethnic population: 250,000
(Ethnologue)
Code:
gul
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Pidgins and Creoles
Parent Subgroup:
Southern Eastern Atlantic Creole (nsec)
Child Dialects:
South Carolina (gul-sou)
Georgia (gul-geo)
Northeast Florida Coast (gul-nor)
Map of Sea Island Creole English
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