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The Gullah Dialect
https://www.translationdirectory.com/articles/article2522.php The above image is from the previous site have linked. It is examples of 19th century Gullah language being spoken. Some other examples are Kumbaya “Come by here” which has been largely accredited to the Gullah people. Additionally the site also states that in the 2005 because of the newfound pride in the language and the educated Gullah people using it more openly they have translated the New testament of the bible into the modern Gullah dialect. Tis took them 20 years to accomplish. As of February 2016 when this article was posted a quarter of a million people spoke the Gullah dialect.
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Gullah Music
This was the first video that I found regarding Gullah music. The reason that I chose to focus my Gullah research on music was because as you can read in my Gullah Origins information on this site the Gullah people have a very big influence on music and a culture that shares wisdom and knowledge through word of mouth especially in song. The first ting that I noticed in this video was the way that the woman introduced their act. She says “I go do it the way a, us do a dance and show, we gon do em in the dialec thing.” Some things to take not of are…
