Sea Island Creole English
Sea Island Creole English is an Indo-European language spoken in United States, by about 550 people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Gullah (also called Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English, and Geechee) is a creole language historically spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community), an African-American population living in the coastal areas of the U.S. states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida from approximately Pender County, North Carolina to St. Augustine, Florida. Today, the language is spoken by around 5,000 Gullahs mostly in parts of South Carolina and Georgia.
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Words in Sea Island Creole English
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | ooman | |
| person | p3rs3n* | |
| name | nem* | |
| ear | Er* | |
| nose | noz* | |
| tooth | tu8* | |
| tongue | toN* | |
| hand | hEn* | |
| blood | blod* | |
| bone | bon* | |
| skin | skin* | |
| knee | ni* | |
| breast | brEs* | |
| liver | liv3r* | |
| water | wata | |
| fire | foir* | |
| sun | son* | |
| star | stor* | |
| stone | ston* | |
| mountain | mouNt3n* | |
| tree | Cri* | |
| leaf | lif* | |
| night | nait* | |
| dog | dog* | |
| fish | fiS* | |
| louse | lous* | |
| one | won* | |
| two | tu* | |
| you | oonuh | |
| we | wi* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
- EnglishIndo-European80% alike
- Ghanaian Pidgin EnglishIndo-European77% alike
- Cameroon PidginIndo-European72% alike
- Nigerian PidginIndo-European71% alike
- Jamaican Creole EnglishIndo-European68% alike
- Hawai'i Creole EnglishIndo-European65% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · gull1241 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · gul