WIKITONGUES: Caroline speaking Gullah and English

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[@lingthrowaway4577]

Hey Wikitongues! I don't think you guys have the captioning/subtitling option up yet on Amara. Can't wait to contribute :)

[@tiehkaphloukxsburdein2012]

@@MI-vn4tp check out tribe up

[@MI-vn4tp]

You’re right our ancestors had to eat those unclean foods. God told us not to eat them or follow the ways of the heathens. The fast foods actually is better than the unclean foods. Until we ask God to open our eyes to the truth of how we’re living we will continue to have hard times because we continue the habits of our ancestors who didn’t know any better. Next thing we desperately need to get rid of this white man named Jesus who the Roman Catholic Church created to deceive black people about the true God and Messiah. There’s no white man coming to save black people. Do y’all think some white man is coming to destroy his people? The Bible is the history book and culture of black people. Caucasians told us we are Gentiles when they’re the Gentiles. We have been hoodwinked and bamboozled by our oppressors so why are we still trusting them? The real Messiah is a black man who was hung on a tree. When Rome invaded Jerusalem they stole the Scrolls from the Temple and when they gave them back to us in the form of a Bible they made all kinds of changes to it. God is awakening black people by the millions around the world reminding us of who we are. The book of Deuteronomy chapter 28 tells us why God did what he did to us. Our ancestors always wanted to follow the heathens so he said he would let the heathens rule Over us 400 years in this country and around the world. The Tribe dispersed around the world was the Tribe of Judah because his transgressions were worst than the other tribes which are still in Africa. Our 400 years are almost over. Ask God to open your eyes to the truth about who they are so the next generations won’t be deceived like we are. Some black people will cut your head off or call you a demon if you speak against Jesus. There’s so much more to tell.

[@MI-vn4tp]

MOST BLACK PEOPLE WILL SKIP THIS POST WHICH MIGHT SAVE THEIR ETERNAL SOULS...ITS A LITTLE LONG BUT HAS THE TRUTH IN IT..I BEG BLACK PEOPLE TO READ THE POST PRAY AND ASK GOD FOR REVELATION KNOWLEDGE ELSE OUR PEOPLE WILL PERISH WAITING FOR A FICTIONAL PERSON NAMED JESUS TO COME SAVE THEM.

[@kimrowden8081]

My family is from Alabama and I understand everything she’s saying.

[@carolinagirl29412]

When my twin sister and I enlisted in the Air Force in 1997 from Charleston SC, we went through Basic Training together. EVERY TIME we spoke, the entire bay fell silent! And our fellow Airmen would ask us to keep speaking! Of course, everyone thought we were from the Caribbean and we proudly told them we were from Charleston❣️❣️❣️❣️ Less than eight years later I received my commission as a Medical Service Corps Officer (Healthcare Administrator) and had to give briefings often to the medical staff. One day a much, much much older heavyset nurse decided to give me some professional advice. She compared me to a fellow officer who was also black, but raised up in the military and was a poised and professional speaker. She negatively highlighted my accent and highly recommended I take a Toastmasters class to work on my public speaking. I looked her up and down and confirmed my speaking abilities were just fine. Never let those unfamiliar with your heritage try to ERASE it.

[@cherylleech785]

Go 'head, Sister!

[@sheriefleming8117]

It’s amazing how people do not understand that your foundation is the combination of the experiences of your ancestors. That your strength comes from generations of family members that were forced to adjust to their environments. Adjust means that they took in everything around them and stayed true to themselves. Just like back then they had to wear many hats and to “fit in”, we are doing the same thing today. The sum-total of your success comes from a legacy of love, strength, intelligence and self confidence. You are who God intended you to be.

[@Bimchelle]

Charlestown, was created out of Barbados, in the Caribbean. Hello my sister...wuh dem want wid you?

[@sparky6086]

Sounds like the Geechee which people spoke, when I was growing up in Georgia, so I was waiting for her to transition to Gullah, when I realized, that she was already speaking Gullah!

[@JarethGarza]

I have a white friend from Charleston and he Can lightly dabble in Gullah dialect and I tell ya, it’ll get everyone’s attention at a party. Because ya either look and sound like a drunk thats babbling or you look like a mystic offering magical advice. Ppl cannot accept it as real, at first. Its close to english but just not the same ;) its awesome.

[@AEHudg]

This sounds like a cross between deep southern and carribean.

[@robertzamudio1987]

She sounds like Bill Cosby

[@clearlyc2438]

I was thinking the same. Carribean and southern.

[@keptins]

Yeah there is definately a dialect continuum

[@amosculbreth5308]

Alot of our ancestors in the Gullah community comes from Salone

[@amosculbreth5308]

If you ever hear a person from Sierra Leone you would swear they are from thr Caribbean

[@rasheedahellis5709]

Who else is truly enjoying her storytelling of Gullah speak? I am!😍

[@empressoftheuniverse1312]

I know right?! I want to hear more of her stories.

[@farmgirl2cr]

Isn't she wonderful?! I had a friend who was raised in Gullah area. We had a wonderful time. Being raised in the country by wonderful family and learning the good life from scratch makes you appreciate life and people.

[@sauna5638]

🙋🏽‍♀️ ENJOYING ♥️

[@junebug74]

My mom is from edisto island I loved going to grandma summers and holidays

[@Ali9718]

@@farmgirl2cr That is very close to our west African pigeon. I can understand it very well.

[@Johanda]

Wow!!! I am in Trinidad, I have lived in Barbados and surrounded by other persons from the Caribbean. This sounds like a little piece of EVERYONE of us. This is so beautiful. I can’t even explain to you how much this means to me. Thank you for sharing this!

[@ivyquinn5757]

Omg exactly. I'm from Guyana but I'm in the US currently for business and today a woman came to me and asked me if I spoke this language because of my accent. I told her I never heard of it and she told me to research it. Now here I am shook because I clearly understand every word.

[@carlasmall5215]

Fully agree. I'm from the VI and I can hear us, a lil trini, a lil bvi, a lil Jamaican plus more. It's so amazing that all the slaves had the same idea no matter where they were to create they own lingo so they could speak freely without massa knowing what they were saying. We were brought here with empty hands but not empty minds.

[@m2naija145]

I was gonna say, she sounds Bahamian then Bajan at the same time

[@hardwired8084]

Wheeeeee … I am in Trinidad agreeing 100%!!

[@africansnowqueenqueen3296]

Oh, she’s absolutely beautiful and music to the ear.

[@dcon4762]

Does anyone remember the 90’s nick children’s show Gullah, Gullah Island?

[@ebonywilliams-dillard4550]

Yeeeees I was looking for this comment! Now as adults we understand what it truly meant. 🤗 I'm researching my culture since I've decided asking my elders..

[@helenjackson8413]

Yes. Loved this show. Used to watch it with my grandson 19 yes ago.

[@Indicadores-de-problemas]

Yass!!!😇😇😇

[@jeannieanonie7932]

I watched that show with my children. We learned a few words of gullet from that show. It was a great show.

[@AMcDub0708]

“Come and lets play together, in the bright sunny weather, let’s all go to Gullah Gullah Island” 🎵

[@parrishdove8184]

This woman is Kin to me. She had a store down the street from my Grandmother Eslin's house. She's so nice and sweet. I love that people can finally learn about my culture. Geechee & proud

[@charlesovercash8862]

I love this woman. I am white but I remember eating pigs feet with my grandmother when I was a kid. The other kids wouldn't touch them. But I thought grandma could do no wrong!]

[@prettyyoungthingpyt5015]

Geechee...wow .I heard that word in that movie "A Soldier's Story" with Fenzel Washington. Very good movie..

[@kidjustice7945]

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[@louisecampbell8224]

@Shufei she reminds me of "Ms Lou" Louise Bennett a Jamaican national treasure, she was very similar in preserving our African culture in Jamaica and teaching us the links between our patios and Twi (Ghanian Language).

[@janaeharrison3822]

Do you think, maybe me and you could talk? I can give you my email through dm, I found out so much through researching. My family speaks just like her and have the same sayings and food dishes. I want to know more I’m actually coming down to the south to find out more

[@Jaebydabay]

Remember speaking this way in school and at home and I’d be told oh you talk so Geechee. I tried to change it but as I got older I wish I never stopped. This sounds so good to me!!!

[@Wikitongues]

Thank you very much for sharing this. Would you be interested in joining us on our podcast to talk about your experience with Gullah-Geechee? If so, you can reach us at [e-mail]. The podcast, Speaking of Us, explores what language teaches us about who we are and where we come from; it explores our relationships with our ancestral languages. Here's the link to our first three episodes on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5tqGw61TAY4lkvZB5cTj7n?si=VMucmUogTIusd_8QTeUCeA. You can also find it on the Apple Podcast store and soon, Google Play :)

[@traceycarr-camper931]

Amen to the Low land Geechees out there

[@gullahgullah790]

Same I am so sad I can’t talk like this but I understand

[@carolearcher-shim215]

It is a language that feel warm, like you’re being hugged and loved.

[@londondeportier9407]

My mom spoke like this but forced both my brother and I to speak correctly. To this day people say I talk White. Is so annoying because it's just the way that I speak. My mom told me that if you have an accent people will think you're stupid😔😢. I understand what she was saying now as an adult but how sad to think that she suppressed her culture within herself and her children just so we would be "okay" in white America. Both myself and my brother are successful and I believe it's because we're well spoken (amongst other things) but it still sucks, you know?

[@BigBoobieLRC]

I was raised in the Charleston area. This lady sounds just like my mom and grandma. I understand everything she is saying and I've actually lived and experienced what she's saying first hand. When our family gets together, we speak to each other this way and my wife(grew up in Augusta, GA) sits there confused because she doesn't understand anything we're saying lol. Also, boy do I miss that okra soup, Lima beans with pigtails, the ishe potato, and the pig feet. And she is absolutely right when she say we bake our macaroni and cheese, not mux and stir it in a pot and call it Mac and cheese lol. I've been telling people this for years. This lady is a breath of fresh air. I remember when I first entered the U.S. Army fresh out of high school, people used to think I was from the Caribbean. I'm proud of our culture. Living in Jacksonville Florida now, I rarely get to hear people talk this way until I go home to Charleston to visit my family. Keep teaching and tell those stories Mrs. White. I love you family

[@oneupforthesonof]

Wow thanks for the info G

[@angelgregio]

From Jax also. Came here because I just got back from Charleston.

[@Quietstorm_ATL]

Me too!!!! Love my hometown but really could not appreciate it until I moved away.

[@GenerationNextNextNext]

I live in Chicago, and I always bake my mac and cheese. It must be my southern roots.

[@The_Informative_Shooter]

I live in augusta, born and raised. My dad's side of the family is from Beaufort and there's still some Gullah influence down there these days. I'll often make trips just to hear the old folks still speak it. My dad would speak it from time to time and his siblings still speak it to this day. I've always been intrigued with this language ever since the first time I heard it as a kid, and even to this day it still mesmerizes me to hear it being spoken.

[@brookannloclivinjohnson950]

When she said “we baked macaroni in an oven kinda like a pie” love it cause our Caribbean restaurants calls it just that! “Macaroni pie”! 💙

[@joseph9531]

Indeed that's what my wife calls it. But I could never get used to saying it like that. I know it as mac and cheese but done the same way, in the oven.

[@kristiehicks9862]

Same! If I want cheese noodle soup they got boxes for that!

[@chuckroberts5310]

That’s what I grew up calling up. People look at me funny when I tell them I make macaroni pies.

[@obamastrollaccount4359]

Always hated Mac n cheese at friend’s places as a kid because they inevitability pulled out the kraft smh a little more effort will go a far, far way y’all

[@sageburnin7095]

Southern Macaroni. The new version is modern "sub urban".

[@appsource3466]

this woman isn't a normal person... she has wisdom and knowledge from our ancestors.... if you know this woman you'd do well to to listen to her words... she might teach you something without even trying.... she definitely woke something up inside of me.

[@BlessedDivinely]

app source - 100%

[@juanitacjohnson2036]

Radiance Blue c

[@Richard-xo2uv]

She is the normal one we are the abnormal ones.

[@sisterhoodsistersforever7854]

Indeed

[@burlietowner2235]

Yess she is. God bless you always maem.

[@implive17]

Jabulile is a Zulu name. It means "I'm happy". I'm south african and Proud of this elder for preserving the history of her people and passing it on.

[@EnemyTec]

American linguistics history also tries to hides African roots in our language, you telling me the name Jabulile means happy made me think of the English word Jubilant. Amazing how Africa’s deep culture has left a mark everywhere.

[@implive17]

@@EnemyTec jeez I never ever made that connection. Well played. What's your favorite thing about life, of human virtue?

[@EnemyTec]

@@implive17 My favorite thing about life is our differences and similarities, the past and the present meshing together making us who we are today. My favorite human virtue is kindness as it’s probably the #1 most impactful and forward thinking thing that everyday people without massive intelligence can do to improve and advance our world. If we are kind to each other we will help each other, if you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours. If everyone was bought into to the wealth and prosperity unconditional kindness will bring for all humans, we’d be a very advanced civilization however we are the only ones limiting ourselves at the moment, those who practice kindness are the future!

[@bn3121]

@EnemyTec I don't doubt that linguistics has a history of racism and cultural erasure as every academic field has to one degree or another. But I think that particular example is a coincidence.

[@michelej9496]

​@@bn3121"He who controls the language controls the masses”. -Saul Alinsky

[@carlathepoet]

“you don’t stir no macaroni in no dish & call it mac n cheese” i cackled! yes lawd

[@ronica57]

Yip! - we bake the hell out of that, here in The Bahamas.

[@danbarron594]

Amen!

[@Mook_DatWerk]

Let the church say Amen..

[@HebrewHoney777]

When I moved to Columbia S.C, they used to ask me if I was from Jamaica or Charleston. But no, I'm from Estill, South Carolina. #Gullah. And this lady sounds exactly like my grandmother and grand aunts.

[@reliablemaid]

I met a Pastor Maude from Estill, SC. I used to go and visit her all thw time in Furman, SC

[@HebrewHoney777]

reliable maid my moms side of the family is from Furman! Wow, small world lol

[@reliablemaid]

+Hebrew Honey I know😊. And I'm from Africa. Her church is right there near Scotia...

[@HebrewHoney777]

wow you're familiar with scotia too??? Christ lol i grew up in furman and have family all in that area

[@shabazzallah9864]

THEY SPEAK GULLAH IN ESTILL, ALSO, BUT THE ACCENT ISN'T AS THICK, AS THE GULLAH SPEAKING PEOPLE THAT ARE CLOSER TO THE WATER...

[@laerr]

You can hear the history in her speech. My god, this is beautiful! People, educate, don't ever let your culture die!

[@brianbethea3069]

Big part of the problem is the _way_ Gullah speakers are educated. Apparently a lot of the time, even sentences spoken in perfect grammar will be corrected by teachers in school. A good quote I heard is that they're not correcting grammar, they're correcting culture. So a lot of focus needs to be put on educating in a way that preserves culture instead of correcting it.

[@jimbrown9885]

unless you're white, because to be proud of white culture is s-u-p-r-e-m-a-c-i-s-t!

[@layli6108]

@@jimbrown9885 say it again !!!!

[@ahsokatano5394]

@@jimbrown9885 All culters have goods and bads

[@romanr.301]

@@jimbrown9885 First, whiteness is not a culture. There is no such thing as a singular white culture. Do you mean European cultures, per chance? If so, literally nothing is stopping Europeans from being proud of their unique cultural identities. Also, there have hardly even been societal systems in place that diminished or devalued the cultures of white people, except those implemented by other groups of white people. But there HAVE been for the cultures of black and brown people, further pushed by imperialism, orientalism, and Western hegemony in global affairs. Hardly a comparison to be made.

[@bellbookcandle3051]

Wow, the light in her eyes! And I don't mean the reflected sunlight - it's the light of her spirit shining out. Beautiful soul...💓

[@cherylleech785]

Indeed!

[@foreverdanah7390]

Yep!

[@lindahuggins6996]

Absolutely. A pure soul.

[@mgnwat]

Yes!!!

[@kvjames32209]

This is so emotional. My grandmother and family from South Carolina used to talk like this l. It’s like they’re here with me.

[@patrinejohnson2333]

I'm from Jamaica and I understand every single word that she said. I can relate to the pigtail, neck bone etc lol. We use a lot of the same dialect, but I would say her accent sounds more like the people from Barbados.

[@nathankrebs6135]

I’m Caymanian and that is exactly how we talk, just with a bit more of the yaad patois mixed in!

[@carolearcher-shim215]

So true, Jamaican myself and I understand every word she’s saying. ❤️

[@MrNicopa]

Not Bajan. Bahamian.

[@NelliLowe]

I'm bajan definitely not bajan but for sure a likkle trini from my fathers side

[@njgiant1]

FBA culture ✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾

[@miles6271]

Gullah sounds like a cross between Jamaican and Bahamian. She says daan taan instead of downtown like a Bahamian but she says unu like Jamaicans. I can't believe we've been seperated for so long and still speak the same language.

[@darthinvader2738]

Unah is universal in the Caribbean. It is from a west African language.

[@nigelholland1714]

All our ancestors came from the same place. Dem folks in Louisiana be the saying some stuff that I've heard folks from the islands say

[@Reason_77]

Una is from Igbo language ..Meaning ( You guys or you people,or rather use when addressing more than one person ) ...Creole is a mix of the languages of different ethnic groups .The language was created during slavery and colonial British era because no one speak English and they had to communicate some how amongst themselves . That’s why countries and people enslaved and colonized by the British speak Creole or Piggin English like they call it in Nigeria..

[@damanidorsey7255]

Its barbados

[@damanidorsey7255]

Nope its straight bajan

[@RainbowCloudofPocky]

She said "when I don talk'em I got my check" and I said PERIODT!!!

[@chrisg1621]

I laughed hard when I heard her say that! DAMN RIGHT

[@leestill6759]

Lol 😂😇👌🏽

[@SunflowahSage]

Yessss !!!

[@otajahjones3525]

Frfr 😂

[@Mook_DatWerk]

Same lol

[@rosem1859]

I’m Belizean and understand every word. We truly are one people!!

[@gildawhitner6962]

Ah deh rite yah de tri kip fiwe Kriol fu di yuth.

[@deondrabeadle7586]

Belizean sounds so much like Jamaicans. It crazy how we are all connected.

[@SunnyandNova]

Y’all sure don’t act like it especially in la

[@truthseeker9688]

Well, I'm southern, hillbilly...and I understand her. Don't ever be embarrassed about speaking from your culture. That's what makes the world interesting...we all a little different..and we celebrate that...it's fun.

[@hakiawylie]

🇧🇿

[@CarefreeMaya]

My moms side of the family speaks Geechee and I love that side of me so much. I hate hearing that people are embarrassed of the dialect. It's been a part of my life ad it shocked me that many people don't know that we still have an existing dialect and culture. We are like islanders. When I've gone to Barbados and Anguilla I can understand what they're saying. Don't have shame. It's a beautiful thing

[@waynejames6771]

Yes Honey Yes I just found out I'm GeeChee and indan the blood line of my mother

[@angelasantiago7426]

Soyica Greaves-Blakney they shuffled ppl all around from the Bahamas to the Americas and in North America everytime new slaves were brought straight from Africa we absorbed their culture and languages that's why it's made up of so many different African languages because they brought ppl from all over Africa

[@dejamesola]

Yes Honey Yes Aman!

[@dejamesola]

Angela Santiago VERY TRUE!

[@hootiehootheblowphish4109]

One of my first memories of visiting Charleston was on a school trip. I asked a young lady at Wal-Mart where something was. She started talking and I was fascinated with her Gullah dialect. I was from the Upstate and kept trying to talk to everybody down that way just so I could listen to their accents. Every part of South Carolina has a different sounding Southern accent. Even within the same town. No one should be ashamed.

[@WABBNMedia]

Ethnic dialect is beautiful! It’s sad that it’s considered uneducated when black Americans talk our regional ethnic dialect . My maternal family is from South Carolina and my paternal is from Alabama. Culture is pride 🖤

[@martinsmith2258]

ablessed20+yearsinb/w I had a teacher that was of Gullah heritage and he showed us videos of the islands and culture. I’m african American from DE but it makes me really proud to see the diverse groups of people We come from and I see why @Kai Evans is mad. It’s cuz black ppl are resilient, diverse, and beautiful!💜💪🏾✊🏾

[@PokemonFan-yy8is]

There’s nothing structurally wrong with the Appalachian, African American, or Southern dialects. Anything you can say in Standard English can be said in these. People just think they’re inherently uneducated because of prejudice. It’s very unfortunate.

[@BL3SSed-Bliss]

@Kai Evans “Real Black” is defined as what, exactly? (Your personal opinion, obv.)

[@MsLeslee18]

ablessed20+yearsinb/w I love it All of you need to read, blacks were the first we taught all people we ran the world but were too trusting prior to the American slave trade all races were enslave based on economics. Other countries know our history but they hid it in American for control purposes. Get past your egos. do your history were all people of color and you gave into the hype of division not wanting to be a person of color . That was the intent division, because their are strength in numbers this will minimize our number. It's also true that there were red and black Indians as well as blacks that are indigenous to the Americans. When the Americans land were connected migration was easy. This is why there are people of color through the four corners of the world.

[@pimpiniseasy2778]

Kai Evans only black people in the south talk like this kid 😂

[@chanta6116]

I'm almost in tears listening to her gullah..R.I.P Grandma. #Beaufort, S C.

[@shaundiaz8558]

Beaufort memories. great place to grow up

[@heidiboyd8240]

Im fr right across the water in Savannah,Ga

[@neferalawton326]

sweet mama, stay close come close to me wrap in the love of our Ancestrors! i miss my grandma too! especially she and i had alot of time between for trouble! but things smoothed out and i spoke to her last before she went on! 'bout 3 hours before. then i came so to her that i gave her safe passage to the beyond beyond ase O!

[@mami.canelaaa]

I had a feeling. She still here gyal. Much love💕 asé

[@XHobbiesPrime]

She passed away? My condolences. Seems like she was an amazing lady.

[@sinnombre-uc7pw]

I'm Boricua (puerto rican) and I have been on a storyteller binge of Black and Brown cultures who may not be around within the next 100 years... I highly recommend doing this 🥺 it is so eye opening. If we share these stories with the people we know... maybe it can make an impact. 🙏🏽

[@Lmao10752]

This culture will be around forever

[@MegaTIGGER31]

We are one❤

[@teovu5557]

im from Dominican republic and most of us hate being called black or brown even though we are. Most of us claim spanish only and will get very mad if you say we're african. lol

[@Gullahbae-xm6ms]

Exactly! We Gullahs will never let our culture die! 🖤💙💚💛

[@EnemyTec]

@@teovu5557 That’s racist and uneducated, my dark skinned Cuban and PR people are the same way a lot of the time. I’m Cuban and PR, Americanized and like to research the history of the world and cultures, we gotta love who we are!

[@LameMule]

This woman is wonderful. Got a head full of history, a spirit of fire and a heart of gold.

[@manwize07]

They speak an English-based creole language containing many African loanwords and influenced by African languages in grammar and sentence structure. Properly referred to as "Sea Island Creole," the Gullah language is related to Jamaican Patois, Barbadian Dialect, Bahamian Dialect, Trinidadian Creole, Belizean Creole and the Krio language of Sierra Leone in West Africa. Gullah story-telling, rice-based cuisine, music, folk beliefs, crafts, farming, and fishing traditions all exhibit strong influences from West and Central African cultures.

[@NegSteLucie]

manwize-of-Kemet You might as well say it's related to every West-Indian English creole then.

[@Mad-Arawak]

manwize-of-Kemet would like to know how is this linked to African language

[@SaloneDutchess]

True am from Sierra Leone and what she is saying is similar to our krio

[@andreajl]

SaloneDutchess to Jamaican patois too

[@Mad-Arawak]

SaloneDutchess there was a civil war in 1787 that freed slaves aka Indians (black people)from the carribeans went and fought in Sierra Leone. That is why your people would speak that way now because it was colonized by them. Hmm.. so that would make some of you Africans half Americans... Lol

[@donking1000]

We literally talk like her in the Bahamas

[@morenaso1]

Many of us Bahamas were originally slaves from the NC and South Carolina area.

[@Chattianna]

+morenaso1 Liberians talk like to this also...most came from SC

[@esther265]

same in sierra leone.

[@webfeend]

+Angb “Angbwill” will why u keep saying Barbados when someone says Bahamas?

[@jasmineknowles3324]

Tamico Gilbert my exact same point! Like df she running on and shit and all the person said was we sound ir talk just like that.

[@shekusuma6578]

I’m from Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 west Africa and I can understand every Gullah word she said wow😮and I just getting to know about the Gullah creole

[@sonofra889]

I'm from Nigeria and was exposed to Sierra Leoneans in the early 2000s. When she first started speaking, I heard that Salone accent though only for a couple of sentences.

[@CaneFu]

LOL, my wife is a Gullah from Charleston, SC and this is what she sounds like when she drops her "business English".

[@DavidDewarSr]

CaneFu congratulations for having someone that loves you from Charleston. I’m from Charleston, grew up here, and this is my home. Gullah and Geechee was a SERIOUS part of my life and I have nothing but respect for it.

[@ismaygriffith4213]

She sounds same as Bajan Dialect as spoken in Barbados

[@koolinwitk1789]

Yep sounds right.. when we are in a business setting we turn it off so the person who ain from there can understand but when we round friends and family... we go all in lol

[@traceycarr-camper931]

CaneFu oh yes. When you are around homeboys and homegirls You drop the business speech. And just let it go.

[@maniyembe]

I was born in West Africa, 95% of what she said is intelligible with West African Pidgin speakers...i even recognized some of the Anglicized Bantu words she's using..

[@BridgetKingL]

I'm proud to be Charleston born/bred and Gullah! Beautiful message she spoke (:

[@epixdevo3180]

Bridget King I'm from a county below Savannah on the coast

[@livelifebehappy369]

So am I!

[@rickmanigault6447]

My families from Jackson and sheapard st

[@thegigadykid1]

Your culture should be more mainstream . it needs to be know. More black Americans should adapt to the gullah

[@kayelingore9547]

I am just a regular black American and I would love to speak like this the language is just so beautiful. One day I want to move to SC and maybe my children will learn

[@Kaiazawadi]

I love my black american heritage!

[@SmileyAdventures]

Same! Being ADOS is something special ❤️☺️

[@njgiant1]

FBA all day ✌🏾✌🏾

[@KishBish]

🙌🏽🙌🏽 nothing like it 💖

[@sleepycookieandanimefriend9605]

Me too

[@bwanahaguziki307]

Black American? Lol seems like you're Black American culture has been all over the Caribbean and Africa. Just read the comment section. No exclusivity at all

[@NSCopy]

I'm Jamaican and she has some real resonance with Caribbean use of language. Surprised and honored to hear this woman talk. This has really expanded my horizons about the Diaspora for sure. Feeling well unified. Amazing video.

[@oyasumiwa]

the way she seamlessly transitioned back and forth

[@herstory82]

I notice that 🤣, I was confused at first but then I understood 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️....

[@nopjack7278]

Very fluently bilingual.

[@JudahCub1981]

I hear Bahamian, Anguillan, Virgin Islands, New Orleans...all mixed into one...talk about common ancestry... She made my evening...

[@damanidorsey7255]

No its straight up Bajan

[@ms.williams1400]

Yes she sounds just like a Bahamian

[@carolynlee2512]

We are One!

[@LonnieE3g]

I'm from New Orleans and I also hear it too.

[@KingFrazier843]

Down in Charleston, dis a normal conversation wit'cha grand.

[@dreadloc9378]

Who dis from Snowden?

[@dreadloc9378]

I from Snowden 2

[@KingFrazier843]

@@dreadloc9378 My last name Frazier.

[@cherylleech785]

I'm envious! Sounds wonderful!

[@The843legendz]

Rite

[@1browngirl29]

Oh my gosh I couldn’t believe “bakra” is in Gullah. It’s in Jamaican patois and had the same meaning: plantation owner !! So many Jamaican patois entwined in this My people in the diaspora, I weep for us!! They didn’t decimate us as bakra wanted....our ancestors live thru us, in our speech, No matter the location. Be proud of our history.

[@MakhalanyaneMotaung]

Mbakra mean white man in ibo (afrikan language)

[@robinlee2376]

Mi hear patois, bakra massa yeh wi call slave driva.

[@rudeboysandokhan442]

Actually the literal meaning is "one who surrounds" or "he who surrounds us" and it came to mean white man because of the context of history, but it had a meaning before West Africans had even encountered Europeans.

[@sprinklysweetssoursparkles]

It's a remnant of our common African ancestors

[@Volcanic_Eruption]

It's a West African term, lol. Possibly from Sierre Leone or Angola. Did y'all forget we also descend from Africans?

[@omggiiirl2077]

Notice the similarities with patois? We are truly one people!

[@esther265]

Gullah resembles other English-based creole languages spoken in West Africa and the Caribbean Basin. These include the Krio language of Sierra Leone, Bahamian Creole,Jamaican Patois, Bajan Creole and Belizean Kriol.

[@garifuna34]

She speaking gullah which is creole

[@aliL111]

Wooorrddd

[@NegSteLucie]

Esther Jonta Foh Are you familiar with BVI creole? Antiguan? Kitittian? Montseratian? Vincentian? Guyanese?

[@evelynapplewhite7340]

Truly.

[@Ave-T-Vision]

Black America is unique. From the Gullah to Louisiana and traditional southern United States.We all have little differences in culture but we are one. This is Black America.

[@derrickberry5453]

I agree, but not with black. American copper colored races. Called us Indians

[@amplyfesociety2570]

@Phil Johnson, well stated.

[@goddesswarrior760]

@@derrickberry5453 Indians come from India.

[@derrickberry5453]

@@goddesswarrior760 Yeah i know, and this use 2 b called India Superior. What about the islands they called West Indies. Thats attached to the land of North America.

[@goddesswarrior760]

@@derrickberry5453 I do believe this was one land mass under one name. Black African people are all over

[@lisaandbeans9645]

Thank you Gullah people for representing African American people in such a beautiful light. You all are an inspiration.

[@sharifabuttafly8321]

We aren’t African American okay that’s a phrase Jessie Jackson gave us in the 80’s...we need to learn our true history. I was born and raised in Charleston and heard Gullah everyday of my life

[@sharifabuttafly8321]

@@DJAjamu not my people but okay if yours did

[@sharifabuttafly8321]

@@DJAjamu you let your enemy tell your your history and by the way out of Africa is a theory and Africa wasn’t even named Africa and those people went by their tribal names and don’t even dna test me bc I’ll show you the science behind that

[@sharifabuttafly8321]

@@DJAjamu my people originated here and the only reason why we say we are African bc someone else told us to. We have allowed a group of foreigners to tell us where we originated and how we got here in their educational system. Now we won’t make them prove it but will jump on our own when we say that whole story was a lie

[@sharifabuttafly8321]

@@DJAjamu not to mention we are allowing the very same people that we claim enslaved our ancestors to now tell us our story and we in no way see the problem in that

[@winniesafi]

As a born African, when I hear her speak, the accent, the dialect I do hear some patios and Caribbean accent but if you know this sound like Krio and pidgin spoken in Sierra Leone, Liberia n other West African countries, everything started in Africa , amazing to see 🫶🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🌍

[@ugwuanyicollins6136]

You can just say you're Liberian

[@winniesafi]

@@ugwuanyicollins6136 i am not , I’m Kenyan .

[@coca1492]

Sierra Leone ancestry is very common in the South Carolina and Georgia

[@anikacorbett7714]

YES ITS DEFINITELY SIERRA LEONE AND ANGOLA TOO😅

[@melissaduprey4467]

she sounds just like my grandmother who we called granny, she was born in 1913 and, she was from Edisto Island (and island off of Charleston, She died January of 2003 when I was six... I miss her so much. She was the best cook, her baked mac and cheese was the best. My mom who is 82 (she adopted me when i was 1 week old) makes the best red rice, she was born in Charleston and moved to New York when she was 11. But she still cooks like she lives in the Gullah. You can hear her accent sometimes.

[@livelovelight1021]

+melissa DuPrey Oh my that red rice is jollof rice.

[@melissaduprey4467]

+LiveLoveLight never knew that, my mom always called it red rice.

[@livelovelight1021]

I just realized that some of our American dishes are variations of West African dishes.

[@melissaduprey4467]

+LiveLoveLight yea, same thing with West Indian food. We did lose the ability to cook crossing the Atlantic.

[@melissaduprey4467]

***** I meant to say didn't

[@stevenottomanyi154]

I could listen to her all day.

[@lordifrit69]

i'm from Jamaica and i've met Bahamians and Bajans, she sounds like them more so. We do say buckra in Jamaica to mean 'white man' and yaad(not yeed lol) to mean 'home' or the yard. They say Yaad too in Ghana to mean the home as well.

[@tahliah6691]

Ohene Ifrit so true if you are a jamaica you can understand her perfectly

[@stritly]

She said yaad...not yeed.

[@NegSteLucie]

Ohene Ifrit They say lakou (yard) in Haiti to mean home/ yard.

[@valeriesmith8335]

She sure does sound like a Bahamian aye

[@marciabryce1379]

Gwaan in, day clean !wow we can't loose it here in Jamaica, it's our first language.

[@natyboops]

When she say, "bukrah," I nearly pass out! We does call dem "bookrah" in St. Croix. 😂 We's one people, no mattah how they try to divide and conquer.

[@Elmayimbe430]

🇻🇮

[@tholleywood5686]

Yes 👏🏽

[@WeeHourzzzPodcast]

Wowww

[@krisyblingaz]

Yes! In Jamaica we say "backra massa"

[@vanaxeldongenwigs3553]

Yeah in Suriname 🇸🇷 we say bakrah means the same thing wow , I love how we are united

[@YolandaHannaYoHan]

Wow! She sounds Bahamian, it's like I'm listening to my grandmother😊 and I understand every words she's saying. What a fantastic memory she has, a true storyteller. We have great storytellers in The Bahamas too. Our ancestral roots are very evident.

[@SNicole82]

My family came from South Carolina and moved to Texas, so our Gullah heritage was lost. Trying to learn about the culture through these KZbin videos :) Thanks for sharing!

[@tianitra]

shannabrown82 Georgetown?

[@travisnguyen3522]

shannabrown82 Brackettville, Texas?

[@cbnboy34]

shannabrown82 Our families have the same migration....South Carolina /Georgia all the way here to Texas

[@sofakingraw4149]

That's crazy because I moved from Texas to South But my dad side was from St. Helena Island.

[@vikeyshamurray7553]

@@cbnboy34same here

[@missvegan1967]

I’m from New Orleans Louisiana and quite sure anyone over the age of 35 grew up with their grandparents and elder relatives speaking this way., Love it! I still speak some of the Geechee language.

[@LilliLamour]

Texas, too. My granny spoke this way.

[@BlackandIndi]

Same here!!! 🤠🥩🐄🐮

[@slarvadain188]

@@LilliLamour Was your granny from Louisiana ?

[@BeccaWilliams8736]

This is simply amazing! I hear an array of Trinidadian, Bahamian, Guyanese, Bajan, Grenadine, St.Kitts accents in one beautiful woman of wisdom. God bless her & the culture from which she hails!

[@Abstract.Noir414]

She's american

[@dmvbay2535]

@@Abstract.Noir414 duh

[@ToniA5555]

For those noticing the similarities in language, you must acknowledge they have the same root.

[@astroziga9233]

And even the story telling part is also a culture in Ghanaian community.

[@DeShonFaNaKa]

Preach!

[@gullahgeechee2699]

yup we all from same people✊🏾😎

[@drellz9361]

@@gullahgeechee2699 no we not

[@SoupBone-bp1qk]

@@drellz9361 - Maybe not you but we can't wake up everyone, lol

[@eunicejaggernauth8002]

I can understand everything she was saying and I'm from the Caribbean. A little Jamaica, Barbados, Guyanese, Trinidad, Tobago, St Lucia all tied up in her, so yes we're related by culture.👍💕❤💕👍

[@Success261]

I am from Trinidad and I understand her completely 😉

[@Reason_77]

That Gullah Language is call Creole or Broken / Piggin English in West Africa.. The Creole commonly spoken in Sierra Leone has some Caribbean feel to it and Broken / Piggin English is common with country such as Nigeria ,Ghana,Gambia ,Cameroon ... Also some slaves in the Caribbean retuned after abolition of slavery trade and settled in Freetown Sierra Leone . Some actually reunited with their family line ,like the Saro, or Creoles in Nigeria during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, were freed slaves who migrated back to Nigeria in the beginning of the 1830s. They were known locally as Saro (elided form of Sierra Leone, from the Yoruba sàró), or Amaro, Nago : Yoruba slave returnees from Brazil and Cuba. One prominent individual of Saro descendant is Bishop Ajayi Crowther ,who translated the English King James Bible to Yoruba language .

[@shakkamusa2366]

I was thinking the same thing. I can hear all the different Caribbean accent in one woman. Wow!

[@kemlaurin]

Yes

[@mooreryo]

shes Black American, not Carribbean

[@kinglylifewithdanita107]

I'm literally crying. I'm from Sierra Leone and we speak Krio. That's all I hear her speak😭

[@blessed933]

That's what I hear too!

[@MsNubiandiva]

Yes, I was thinking the same thing.

[@youkendehunique6317]

Yes between Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 or Liberia 🇱🇷

[@khaleesistormborn879]

wonder if it is close to what we in Jamaica call creole or patois?

[@kinglylifewithdanita107]

@@khaleesistormborn879 yes it is. We understand perfectly when jamaicans speak. Very similar

[@katrinagibson9467]

Wow! I'm from the 🇧🇸 Bahamas and I enjoyed hearing the Gullah language. She sounds like she is from one of our islands.

[@Dev-cd8oy]

Barbados everybody do your due diligence !

[@cheryljordan5643]

I go and talk and got my check. Love it!

[@afrodeity369]

I understood EVERYTHING she was saying and I’m born and raised In England, UK to a Trinidadian mother and a Bajan father. Her accent sounds like a mixture of Bajan, Trinidadian and Southern American dialect to me (some may say other Caribbean islands). In the Caribbean they also say hunna or wunna (in Barbados), una (in Jamaica), or allyuh (in Trinidad). Macaroni Pie is a staple in the Caribbean not that stuff you stir like this Aunty said. Dreaming of fish and it meaning that someone is pregnant is also all over the Caribbean and also in other parts of America. That is attached to west African spirituality, specifically the Orisha Yemaya who is the Orisha/Deity/Goddess of the ocean. She is the mother of the fishes and all Orisha and is connected to conception, pregnancy, childbirth, children to name a few. When I was little my great grandmother (from Trinidad) called my mother (in the UK) and said that she “dream fish” and told my mum that she’s pregnant, it’s going to be a boy and she should name him James. My mum shrugged it off and thought my GG was talking rubbish. WELL!! About 2-3 weeks later my mum started vomiting, me and my dad instantly thought she was pregnant, however she kept dismissing the idea. A few more weeks later she found out she was. A few months later she found out it was a boy. And guess what she named him? James!! (Not my brothers real name, but I can’t be putting his business on the internet like that). I LOVE Caribbean, African American and Latin American history and it’s deeply rooted connection to the beloved African continent and our ancestors. We in the diaspora do not realise that a lot of the culture we believe to be “Jamaican culture” or “Mexican culture” or “Down South culture” is actually AFRICAN culture and AFRICAN spirituality! 💓💞

[@BayouBarbie504]

I'm from New Orleans. I've noticed that any group of black people that were left alone to an extent during slavery, has kept a lot of African traditions in tact without even knowing it sometimes. She looks and sounds like several people in the 7th Ward to me.

[@selahbahtisrael9328]

Right!

[@TheThunderSound]

Black folks need to fight to bring patois back. It's apart of cultural identity.

[@TheThunderSound]

@Qimodis most people don't know what you know.

[@fal8872]

Not African Traditions.... indigenous traditions. Native traditions. All black folks aint from africa. We been on this side of the world since the begining of time !!!

[@missshannonsunshine]

F AL there’s nothing legit that proves that

[@nichelleking740]

When she said ish potato, I almost cried. These are words we dont hear anymore. Its country to some but it sounds like home.

[@lashonetthill5661]

🌹YESSSSS🌹🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@hahadarrie]

@2:30 for real! "You don't stir no macaroni in no dish." Something my maternal grandmother would say.

[@corneliadavis2990]

Absolutely not. Bake macaroni❤

[@jamaicansistarobinson7587]

I understand everyt(h)ing since we are one big family!♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@mycolortv1]

@Naiym1 untill they come to America from their poor ass little islands with their fucked up attitudes..remember you came HERE

[@Dirtymoney8]

@@mycolortv1 Facts. 💯✔

[@aann6599]

Hey cuz ✋🏽

[@yolanda9724]

Yes, indeed we are! The Caribbean is the Americas as well!

[@beverlywilson7342]

@@mycolortv1 heyyyyy

[@shamika5300]

Proud of my gullah/geechee culture my grandmother spoke geechee ❤

[@traceycarr-camper931]

Shamika Charlton yes. Proud of the low country SC.

[@beverlywilson7342]

Can you reproduce the language?

[@shamika5300]

@@beverlywilson7342 boi yuh fool up innit

[@abroadstateofmind5571]

I’m from the Bahamas and the lovely woman sounds exactly like my grandmother …I must make a trip to meet our distant relatives wow!

[@Thetorchbearer-zee]

Beautiful! I love to hear the elders speak. Respect!

[@gertrudebuck590]

Embarrassed! I COULD NEVER EVER BE EMBARRASSED OF MY ANCESTORS HISTORY!

[@gigipeedee]

What about white people?

[@alexandergangaware429]

Shaming people over their speech is a longstanding problem of English-speaking culture. You see it in their class-system; you see it in how Wales and Scotland are treated as sideshows. Of course the tendency spread throughout the empire, and that's before you add the racial dimension. Way I see it is, if you can get most of what someone is saying, you and them speak a common tongue. Let professional linguists argue over whether they're "languages" or "dialects." Such debates will amuse them.

[@royaldigitalmedia]

Be quiet. You talking that now in this time on the web.

[@allysonsnipe8235]

I'm from Awendaw, which is considered Charleston, SC. I understood everything this is how my family talks when were all get together. Hearing this warmed my heart.

[@raymobettyboi9606]

allyson snipe yep I’m here in Beaufort Sc and Ida unda Stann all de ting she fa tawk bowt

[@loveunconventionally6043]

My family is from McClellanville Simmons/Harrell/McNeil

[@lisajkalm]

My Pinckney fam is there...10 mile

[@KayKay-fc5sg]

“When I done talking I got my check”💵💸💲

[@MeshaQueendom]

Right 🤣

[@sidranebynum6470]

Yes ma'am

[@ronica57]

I'm a Stevens, born and raised in The Bahamas. I have traced the surname to South Carolina, where 400 left and came to Acklins, in The Bahamas. We are definitely a part of the Gullah people.

[@allthingsloveone4584]

Reach out to me! My family is from Acklins! We're Collies

[@ronica57]

@@allthingsloveone4584 - Hello - [e-mail]

[@mionty]

Yes ma'am! She sound so much like us Bahamians. Jeesh, it's unbelievable! 242 to the world!

[@shaniquecunningham4477]

Yup indeed we are!!!

[@lovelybrown6453]

This is part of the African culture. And there wasn't no high cholesterol back then because they didn't get to eat a bunch of meat just the scraps. My momma use to say they ate mostly vegetables and grains and not much of that either and there wasn't no GMO'S.

[@retrorockdriquesrock9638]

Respect and love to you "lovely Brown" ❤

[@sheeshneesh]

The scraps were pig fats, intestines, the skin of animal fats.... Which are high in saturated fats so....

[@lovelybrown6453]

@@sheeshneesh so they ate pig intestines every day? Please stop saying such nonsense I'm sure the oppressors didn't eat pig everyday and if they had a large farm every slave didn't get to eat pig guts, what was left over from the pig the oppressors ate was hardly enough to feed every slave they had, my gram was once removed from slavery and said what they were most likely to eat was something they grew in a communal garden and every now and then were allowed some animal scraps. If you think they, they meaning the oppressors killed enough pigs everyday for every slave to be able to eat intestines from the pig they'd have to kill a lot of pigs. Please think before speaking. And research your response.

[@ambriagriffin]

@@lovelybrown6453 Thank you for teaching! I've observed too many posts (particularly food posts) in which people choose to speak on the dishes passed down from our ancestors as if they were designed to put us at a disadvantage today. The cause of the diseases that plague Black communities in America is NOT the traditional food. It is what is done TO traditional food - overuse of sodium & growth hormones (both in animal and produce products) and the failure to consume in moderation. In no way did our enslaved ancestors maintain their spiritual and physical strength by consuming pig intestines, tails, and feet daily.

[@chad7554]

Yow yung muma all dat weh white ppl tell us, is pere phart! Fi identify eny we do as slave culture... They told us this to make us deter from our culture and disown it as it's slave culture.. yow we ate every part of the animal and wasted nothing, down to the eyes, all brain would have use, quintessentially why the tail and hooves were found so much as a delicacy by our people on the animal those are the most regenerative parts of them, it's high in collagen which is high in Vita D and C, make skin look more plump and younger... Plus wr took the bone marrow and used in our hair and skin... Stop listen dem phart ... Our fud iz for di healingz...

[@AlluringFire]

I love how she said it would be times that they would be conversing among themselves, and no “others” would know what she’s saying. I feel like we should have more of this in our culture these days. We all share something unique and joyous times with each other. Let’s create traditions and generational wealth, for those coming after us. We are built to shine, to grow and win together.

[@Wikitongues]

"We are built to shine, to grow and win together" - thank you for your beautiful comment and the love of your culture

[@afrodeity369]

I agree! We should definitely have a language/ dialect that they can’t understand. But these people are smart. They integrate our “slang/Ebonics” into their dictionaries, they’ve already translated the bible into Jamaican Patois, they’ve got a news channel where the news is spoken in Nigerian Pidgin (broken English similar to patois) and it’s all done under the guise of integration and them “embracing “ our differences, but slew shouldn’t be fooled, they’re LEARNING our language even the broken English. In the UK white people have become translators for the police, solicitors and judges so that they can understand everything we say and catch the information we’re trying to hide when we are communicating with others in slang/Ebonics/pidgin/patois/creole. Dem smart!

[@AkosuaFire]

YES!!

[@ZzzZ-sb9ju]

@@afrodeity369 right!

[@AlluringFire]

@Michael Smith they’re American Indians.

[@JSCDR]

This made me cry! She’s so beautiful and proud of who she is. I have learned so much. May the Lord bless and keep her!

[@yoshisaba]

She has such a beautiful spirit!!! Love her accent!

[@videxvid]

As a black American, I feel my so called education has failed me! I never learned anything about this history.

[@ememe1412]

You are the master of your own education. If your education failed, you failed yourself. Education is like food, if you allow to be spoonfed, don't be surprised to be malnourished. Past childhood, you put the food in your own mouth and eat the food you need to be healthy. Formal school is like being fed, this is different to being nourished...

[@ceeceetracey9839]

I think this is regional. If your family isnt from this part of the south you wont really learn this. I have a coworker from Louisiana and what she tells me about her family is totally different from what I know about my family in South Carolina. So all parts of the south have their own ways.

[@nikluv21]

Well. We dont learn everything in school. And if you are in your part of the country, most likely you see those things. I guess only if you travel alot, have family members from different areas, etc do things come to light. I know about it only because my friend's husband spoke it and it was kind of funny how you pronounced his name. Lol. You had to say it like he said it. Dont feel bad. You know now and maybe you wanting to research more will bring you to even more history. It's okay!

[@flimix5843]

Right

[@paigequeenb8257]

I'm glad my dad told me about our roots

[@tryphenasparks]

She's impressive. I'm proud of my Northern European culture, I have no blood or historical connections to the Gullah people, but theirs is an important regional culture within the USA and we should all.cherish and protect it. The US has become too homogenized. We need more storytellers like this.

[@silvabakx6396]

She's obviously mixed, & based on many of the DNA test reveal vids I've been watching lately, there's a possibility that you two could actually be related. You, her & I might be distant cousins for all we know. Yup. Weird huh. This tangled web our predecessors wove, & we continue to weave, is a strangely beautiful thing like that. Roots & culture - Hybrid vigor!

[@summero.2377]

Agreed! I had DNA testing and I’m 100% European, whiter than the driven snow. But, my children are a mixture of West African/Cajun through their father, whose roots are from Louisiana plantations. I have always been fascinated with backgrounds/cultures other than my own, and I truly believe nobody should ever try to hide it or be ashamed of it. You see all these folks who claim to be embarrassed by their ancestors....why? You can’t change what they did, you can only learn from it and vow to not repeat their mistakes. Our country is a wonderful beautiful mix of so many people and cultures. I love being an American 🇺🇸

[@frogsmith9578]

@@silvabakx6396 stfu

[@Me-ty8dd]

Totally agree

[@ownerowner5580]

@@frogsmith9578 hahaha lol

[@mks6148]

I loved listening to her speak Gullah so proudly. She’s beautiful and full of wisdom and knowledge. This is the kind of person that I’d like the privilege to just sit and chat culture and history with. Much love from your fellow American (originally from Senegal) ❤

[@kjen1516]

I am Liberian, Loma, and my mother never eats catfish. She said whenever I dream about catfish I was pregnant. I'm her 8th catfish. When I became pregnant with my first child, I dreamt of water and fish. As I learn about culture and Freuds' dream interpretation in Psychology, I know dreams are important! Beautiful piece - she is a treasure.

[@rudeasxebo7124]

That's one of the oldest black American superstitions. Dreaming of fish equals somebody's pregnant. Yes our culture is rooted deep.

[@Kincaid2576]

🇱🇷

[@vaimende]

im also liberian and i always say gullah sounds very much like old liberian english

[@BlackandIndi]

All blacks know about the fish dreams!!!! 😂 Or at least they should, lol

[@MsKismetNoRegrets]

Beautiful reminder of how maintaining culture can aid in showing how interconnected we are as African people 🇬🇾

[@reneedavis870]

I was born in Louisiana and my great grandmother spoke like this. I can remember her talking about speaking Geechee. I didn't know about this culture. Thank you.

[@DanFamSistah]

I grew up in NYC (Queens) with a lot of Caribbean folk, so maybe that's why, but I find her really easy to understand. I LOVE listening to people speaking Gullah in the Low Country. She has the most gorgeous amber eyes!

[@jjones7396]

I noticed her eyes too. The look orange and they are beautiful.

[@kerriganrobinson7072]

i met her in real life thats my grandmothers friend

[@ct2000]

Kerrigan Robinson that’s really cool

[@NilsMcCloud]

Bless her, she tells a great story.

[@observationcomplete6463]

Everyone who commented and located in The Bahamas (Nassau) we need to link up and plan a trip to visit SC and Georgia. This is why we need to keep our dialect and get deeper into learning about who we are. I'm amazedddd lmaooo wow....

[@KevinL242]

Agreed@

[@lboogiebanks2426]

This is my families culture even though I was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in NYC I spent my summers with my great grandparents in cross south, Carolina🙂. Big shout out to all the people in Charleston, utahville, monks corner, cross, santee, and all the other places in South Carolina. 💕

[@stevewilson6167]

Miss White: I was telling somebody about you and Anansi stories. I looked on Google, and here you are. Thank you so much for being a keeper of our history. I still cherish your stories.

[@melanatedwoman3760]

Steve Wilson ...and as a child, Our National Story teller was Miss Louise Bennette, she favors Miss Caroline. Erie.

[@fhbklyn]

😍😍😍😍😍 I love her. I love the African diaspora.

[@711hudson]

Sounds like a bahamian, bajan, trini, southern, cajun mix

[@kamenwaticlients]

Yup she reminds me of my late great trini mama

[@jcbentleyalley154]

Yep aboriginal Americans

[@damanidorsey7255]

Its mainly Barbados

[@souljaboydun]

No she just sounds like a elderly Bahamian from the island my grand mother talked just like this

[@luvlyerdj93]

A lot of enslaved people were brought to Charleston from Barbados.

[@ShadowStarMicah24]

Love it, absolutely love it. I'm England born but with Jamaican heritage and I just love the connections we share and the uniqueness of the Gullah. It reminds me a little of Trini patois whilst also sounding like West African 'pidgin' (obviously I know the West African connection will be there and that im stating the obvious)... I just love it, I feel like a missing piece is being filled in my psychological make up... hope that makes sense

[@occvltvs_]

She seems like a good lady and I would definitely spend a whole day just listening to her talk about anything 😭😭😭😭💕

[@lnb2004]

Riceboro, GA! We speak like this! Amazing! This is my grandmother and great-grandmother speaking. Makes me teary-eyed!

[@holyspiritfor]

+Latonya B : Amazing, her accent is very close to Guyanese from Georgetown and also sounds a bit Bajan and Trinidadian.

[@lnb2004]

It seems we aren't so disconnected. I love this!

[@holyspiritfor]

same here

[@bheadh]

+Brielle Smith I live on Hilton Head S.C. where most Gullah live. It sounds to me more like Bahamian or Jamaican English.The difference between Gullah & Geetchie is "Gullah" more identifies with the Carolina Lowcountry. Geetchie is from across the Ogeechee River in Ga.

[@lysandraryan1230]

I'm a white boy, but I grew up in Charleston S.C. I was holding back tears this whole video tbh. I grew up with my black friends speaking Gullah, and I spoke that way with them, and I thought that was what people call "ebonics." So when I moved up north I talked that way to black friends for awhiiiile until I figured out my mistake. My kid brother and I still speak Gullah to each other to this day. Especially, if we don't want people to know what we're saying. :P

[@SeadogDriftwood]

Beautiful words, and a lovely dialect/language! The Gullah telling of the Bible story was a little hard for me to understand, but at the same time, it felt relaxed and approachable, almost conversational in tone. I like that. What she said at the end reminded me of a story I heard in synagogue. Once, a man was walking down a road. He saw an old man planting a carob tree. "How long will it take for this tree to produce fruit," he asked the old man. "Seventy years," the old man replied. "Do you expect to live to taste that fruit?" "Probably not. But my ancestors planted carob trees that I ate from, and I'm doing the same so my descendants can eat from this tree."

[@mikescott1470]

I am a 68 year old white guy . I was born and raised in south east GA and use so much of this language. I love the low country of GA and SC!

[@dawnjackson6299]

I'm a white woman from Virginia and I understood everything she said LOL then again I live right near a beach in my town and area called Buckroe it's part of Hampton so I'm not surprised

[@dawnjackson6299]

@Umbuko DaJuko actually my mother's side is Jewish and was not in the country during any of that time on my father's side is Native American so I don't think my ancestors destroyed much of anything so basically you just made a blanket racist statement never judge a book by its cover

[@illeanaharvey7402]

She sounds exactly like my Grammy. Turks and Caicos/ Bahamian We speaks exactly like that...and bake macaroni like a pie too...

[@dpeschio]

"Bake macaroni!" ohhh hell yeah!

[@ubiquitousseymone]

Dan Peschio we call it macaroni pie in Trinidad

[@aceheru7855]

Same in Barbados

[@VolcanoEarth]

Yes when she starts talking baked macaroni and dumplings and okra I start feeling a bit homesick and timesick for my mamaw's kitchen back in the day.

[@deboii100]

A lot of the south talk like this she talk like she from Louisiana that just show you how much we need to unite as a people because we are one! Only difference is a BOAT stop literally

[@dkms12231988]

I'm from where she is in Charleston SC. I visited Atlanta and a lady asked me if I was from New Orleans based on the accent and slang lol

[@semiramisbonaparte1627]

nah

[@PHiLLy2c]

deboii100 right she sound just like my aunties

[@zhaystyle]

"You dream of fish?"...wowwww, this takes me back! I haven't heard someone say that in a loongggg time and didn't realize it came from this part of our culture.

[@iluvmyboba]

My Great Grandmother was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina in 1911. And she spoke just as this wonderful Lady. When we were little and running around the yard barefoot, if we got too far away, she'd yell "Git from yonder with no shoes on." Wow, ringing in my ears as I type. Miss and Love you much, Gramma. Rest in Peace, Sweet, Beautiful, Chocolate Woman.

[@Sirinwara]

This woman is a one-of a kind person and a talented storyteller. And I'm white. And not even American. Respect for her and what she has stood up for

[@NegSteLucie]

Sirinwara What does your being White have to do with anything?

[@gregglass4796]

Sirinwara we

[@melanatedwoman3760]

Sirinwara why state ur "whiteness" who cares. Girl bye

[@FireRupee]

@@melanatedwoman3760 I think he means he admires what she's doing even though it isn't directly from his own immediate family history. Maybe him being white and not American he mentions to say how far apart or unrelatable someone might think his community and hers are. Clearly we're not so different afterall.

[@angiemaq]

Wow....I am from MS..born and raised and this woman talks almost identical to my grandmother....amazing...I understood everything she was saying except for the "break of dawn part"....we've never used that word. My grandma used to say to me as she was leaving.."I'll be back in da reckla"...never knew what that meant until I was grown....it means indirectly....I will be back, but not right back....I make a few stops in between.....gotta love it...

[@Classof20012010]

My granny still says "durrecklee" and it means 'directly' or soon.

[@angiemaq]

Happy GoLucky Really? I never knew anyone else who said that!!

[@Classof20012010]

Doagae Porbeni Yeah well we're Gullah/Geechees (Charleston, SC metro area), so a lot of us still speak that way.

[@angiemaq]

Happy GoLucky I would love to speak that way...i did some research on the history of your islands...it is wonderful...

[@spainyo]

Doagae Porbeni WHOA! My family is from MS as well. I was born and raised in Chicago. The reason I came to this video is because I was in Myrtle Beach Recently with my paw paw, our first time there. We ran into some gentleman who thought my grandfather was geechee because we speak the same. I'm not familiar with Gullah culture tho. I thought most older AA's spoke this way. 60% of african slaves came thru NC and SC, that much I do know and most african americans spoke like this but were villainized for it, especially in the northern states. The language lives on and is def not isolated in the carolinas.

[@xajae_ama]

It so interesting to hear the similarities between the Gullah Geechee language and Ghanaian pidgin. I’m so fascinated.

[@lateshajohnson3622]

Careful sometimes Geechee is EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE terminology for some southerners

[@yoshiBRATZ]

Girl it’s okay to say gecchie I’m from Charleston South Carolina and yes we still talk like this it’s very heavy ✊🏿😭

[@OJennifer13]

I wouldn’t say Ghanaian !! Geechee sounds more like the Liberians and seirre leones of west Africa!

[@imaniwalker4975]

@@OJennifer13 Makes sense. Your comment is spot on, because South Carolina plantation owners specifically targeted people from Sierra Leone to enslave because of their rice growing skills. My parents are from South Carolina and whenever I see a man from Sierra Leone he reminds me of my dad and his brothers. I didn’t realize the connection, but I would ask “where are you from?”, and over and over again they would say Sierra Leone. Then I found out about the history of rice saving the economy of South Carolina and the preference for enslaving people from Sierra Leone. Liberia’s history is “Liberia was founded in 1822 as an outpost for returning freed slaves from the Americas.” I am saddened that my parents had to leave South Carolina in the 40s because of the extreme racism that they experienced. My father had just returned from World War II where he served as an officer, and then got back to South Carolina where they tried to treat him like a boy.

[@jnimelybelwin7196]

Is all Liberian connection

[@Chalcedony6421]

Gullah nation!!! I'm glad I have a grandma that taught me about our heritage and some of the language.

[@neerajanaghosh4464]

I read a book called “The Story of English” in the early 80’s where they mentioned that there are words in American English which has its origins in the Gullah language. A PBS documentary was also made from the same book.

[@virginialpinon748]

Wen a word is widely used it's become part of every day language and works it's way to the dictionary. New words in this. Also lots new words thru those learned in cyber talk

[@mvnn]

The Gullah language here sounds so much like the West African Pidgin English which is still spoken today in anglophone West African countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone etc. Pidgin language was a language used by the Africans to communicate with the Europeans. I like this bit of what she says, she even gets the accent right "... dem disciple dem got so scared dem say we better wake Jesus up before we drown our [...] so dem holla out massa! massa! we all go get drowned, wake up wake up" Unfortunately this language is looked down upon in the above West African countries as a language for the illiterate, but I still speak it. Some have french mixed with it, misusing the French word 'de' as a conjunction to make it flow.

[@TaurusVirgoDvineFem]

+Manny Tettèrfio It's believed that some of the enslaved Africans brought over to South Carolina & Georgia more than likely had knowledge of Guinea Coast Creole English (W. African Pidgin English). The book "Africanisms in the Gullah Language" by Lorenzo Turner, speaks on the direct influence West African languages have on Gullah language. There's also strong African influence in their music, food, storytelling/folklore & medicine.

[@vaimende]

no it sounds liberian

[@hanifmartin7505]

Manny Tettèrfio she sounds just like a West India lady and that's what whe eat🤔🤗🤗

[@RaMahUganda]

even naming the children

[@NegSteLucie]

Manny Tettèrfio That's a bit of a stretch but don't you think? She doesn't sound like an African.