Gullah language — Infobox Language name=Gullah states=United States region=Coastal low country region of South Carolina and Georgia including the Sea Islands cite web url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show language.asp?code=gul title=Sea Island Creole English… … Wikipedia
African American Vernacular English — African American topics History Atlantic slave trade · Maafa Slavery in the United States Military history of African Americans … Wikipedia
African American studies — African American topics History Atlantic slave trade · Maafa Slavery in the United States Military history of African Americans … Wikipedia
Lorenzo Dow Turner — (b. August 21, 1890 d. 1972) was an African American linguist who did seminal research on the Gullah language of coastal South Carolina and Georgia.Early lifeBorn in Elizabeth City, North Carolina on August 21, 1890, Turner was the youngest of… … Wikipedia
creole languages — ▪ linguistics Introduction vernacular languages that developed in colonial European plantation settlements in the 17th and 18th centuries as a result of contact between groups that spoke mutually unintelligible languages. Creole languages… … Universalium
Africanism — Af ri*can*ism, n. A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers. Milton. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Anguilla — This article is about the Caribbean British overseas territory. For other uses, see Anguilla (disambiguation). Anguilla … Wikipedia
Creole language — A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable natural language developed from the mixing of parent languages; creoles differ from pidgins (which are believed by scholars to be necessary precedents of creoles) in that they have been nativized … Wikipedia
Igbo people — Ndị Igbọ O. Equiano • Jaja of Opobo • Chinua Achebe • C.N. Adichie Total population 15–30 million worldwide (est.) … Wikipedia
Maya Angelou — Maya Angelou, 1993 Born Marguerite Ann Johnson April 4, 1928 … Wikipedia
