geechee

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas [is/was] a Gullah speaker.
(12/14/00) issue of the New York Times in Thomas's own words
"When I was 16, I was sitting as the only black kid in my class, and I had
grown up speaking a kind of a dialect. It's called Geechee.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/GullahGeechee.html

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"Gullah, a word derived perhaps from Angola, draws to some degree on amix
of West African languages like Ewe, Ibo and Yoruba."

African Languages
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/aflang.html

World Creoles
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/worldcreoles.html

American Virgin Islands Creole
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/vi.html

best,
Karen Ellis

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