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Africanisms in the Gullah dialect

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Type: Color photographs | Books
Creator: Turner, Lorenzo Dow
Title: Africanisms in the Gullah dialect
Date: 1949
Description: Image of the cover of Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect, first published by linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner in 1949. The cover features an illustration of several Gullah women tending a large pot outside a wooden structure.

This book establishes links between ethnic groups in West Africa and the Geechee and Gullah population of the Georgia Sea Islands.

Subjects: Books--United States | Sea Islands Creole dialect | Gullah women--Georgia | Gullahs--Georgia | African American women--Georgia | African Americans--Georgia | Women--Georgia | Sea Island (Ga.) | Glynn County (Ga.)
Contributors: New Georgia Encyclopedia
Original Material: Turner, Lorenzo Dow. Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1949.
Related Materials: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1063 | Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia
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Related Institutions: New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
Collection Information: New Georgia Encyclopedia