Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect

by Lorenzo Dow Turner

Book Overview

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"