Sea Island Creole English
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- Language: Sea Island Creole English
- Alternate names: Gullah, Geechee
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:fvr
- Language family: Creole, English based, Atlantic, Eastern, Northern
- Number of speakers: 250,000
- Script: Latin script
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Introduction
The Gullah language is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees"), an African American population living on the Sea Islands and the coastal region of the U.S. states of South Carolina and Georgia.
Gullah is based on English, with strong influences from West and Central African languages such as Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Mandinka, Wolof, Bambara, Fula, Mende, Vai, Akan, Ewe, Kongo, Umbundu, and Kimbundu.
The verb
Sample verb: wait
| Tense | Past |
| Present/Past Tense | Uh wait |
| Past Tense | Uh bin wait |
| Future Tense | Uh gwine wait |
| Perfect Tense | Uh done wait |
| Present Progressive | Uh duh wait |
| Past Progressive | Uh binnuh wait |
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