Establishments used to hold slaves prior to shipment
Mixing two languages a person speaks especially in informal conversations
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Establishments used to hold slaves prior to shipment
Mixing two languages a person speaks especially in informal conversations. It may involve the two languages used in a single sentence or different sentences may be spoken in different languages.
language developed by African workers so white masters could not understand them, hybrid of English and African, culturallly a connection to Africa
African American linguist and academic who studies Gullah, "Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect"
English-based creole spoken by Black Seminoles- free or runaway slaves
the process whereby a creole is used with fewer distinct creole features as it becomes more like a standard variety
the gradual merging of one regional variety of a language into another.
a common language used by speakers of different languages
Africanisms in Gullah, Maritime English, social structure of south (play slaves and african nurses)
people mixing together produced American Koine (Frontiers and Indians, slave trade)