@@WorkHardBeNice watched this some years ago. Made my Soul jump. Reminded me of my Great Grandmother and the Generation some 25-30 years ago on their last days. Beautiful to see us before us
In the Army, I was stationed with a guy who identified as Geechee. At first, he was nearly unintelligible, but as we got used to his speech, he shared amazing stories of his life in rural, coastal Florida. He taught me Gullah words and phrases, which became our personal memes. We became quite close, but we lost touch (pre-social media). I've tried to find him, with no luck. It's a shame, really.
I kno what she talking I heard this story as little boy at school and the gullah performers came to my school this story has something to do with a bird talk to another animals. I got sooo excited when I realized that she was telling the story and I knew what she was talking about.
Joshua Middleton I have to let her know you remember her story from school. She's the only storyteller that tells this particular story. So I know she'll be excited.
This is wonderful. I’ve read about Gullah for years, but I had never heard it. It just dawned on me tonight that there would be examples of it on TH-cam, and I found this. Thank you so much for posting it.
Really?! 😨😨😨 Outside of when she spoke English, I did not understood absolutely anything she said because to my Amer ear, this sounds like total gibberish. She, however, is very animated and seems to be telling/acting out an interesting story along with clapping.
I am trying to learn more about Gullah people and culture. My dad's father was from Louisiana and he was Gullah. I never met my grandfather. However, it is important to me to understand that side of my family. Only my mom and I really talk about it.
Eric Morris that’s cool!! I’m black and I’m from Delaware but I wish I had a little bit more ties to communities like this lol. It makes me proud to be african American with our various cultures. I hope you get more info about your background tho
@@martinsmith2258ayyyeee! I’m from Delaware too 1st generation. My mom is first generation to live in Philly. And my mommom was from North Carolina. My dad grew up in Florida but his peoples is from Georgia. Both my parents say their parents spoke geechee but my mom’s side banned them from doing so because it was seen as improper English. My dad knows a lot of words and phrases/ sayings. But understands it more then he can speak it. He’s lost some of it since moving to DE when he was 18 for college and settled here with my mama. But its been fun talking to my elders about what life was like for them. They tell me things a book could never about myself.
Hello this is your mom wow she’s amazing I’m also Gullah from the Florida region though my great grandmother use to speak us in Gullah but I was too young to understand but I’m learning from different videos I come across online. I’m very interested in my heritage is it possible if you can send the words of the story.
Wow, I was just researching Gullah, because I heard a quote. And as i was researching I saw Geechee. I had a uncle that my parents use to call Geechee and I never knew that it was a region of people. He was from Mississippi I think this is very interesting.!!!
Well, there is also Ogeechee, a river, I believe. I'm guessing that the river was named after the people, rather than the other way around, since the name Geechee seems to have come from Africa, the Bahamas or the Caribbean.
Interesting. Ive heard there are a small portion of black pple with this same dialect in a rural part of Mississippi and also Alabama. Ive heard this from 2 different pple.
@Jonathan Rose You have to remember no ethnic group stayed only local to their areas. Especially those from Africa who arrived in South Carolina. It was the largest slave port, I believe? At the least one of the largest. So, people traveled, and definitely were sold to states across the South. I'm from Mississippi, and we actually use many of the words such as Innit, instead of ' aint it'....Also, listening and reading some of the Gullah language I noticed they begin words with the letter 'D'. We do that in Mississippi as well...For instance, "Dat is crazy dey went down dea'"....I really appreciate you mentioning Black Seminoles language..That is surely something I will research....Thank you. :)
it depends on where your from i believe. My family is from Ga and an Im from NJ and I can barely cant understand anything they say. In Ga there are Freshwater and Saltwater Geechee. I think its easier for you to understand because they are Freshwater Gullah/Geechee. There are some in Alabama who's words are the same but accent are different so it depends on where you are. S Carolina Gullah/Geechee sounds more Caribbean which makes it more easy
@@kwameadu0075 Could be. Looking further in my ancesty it's looking like Gullah of the Carolinas moved south and developed a delifferent accent/way of talkin which Is similar but different. I've always known my family to come from Georgia. Recently I found out that they were actually from/ sold in south Carolina and eventually sold as slaves in Georgia
thats like Nigerian pidgin Gulla fo una nigerians would say Una (Oona) which is derived from the Igbo word Unu (Oonu) which means you=plural or like y'all
@@paradisecrescent2 Yes Jamaicans kept a lot of Nigerian culture, although the words changed (diluted) over time. For instance in Nigerian pigeon English we refer to children as pikin... whereas Jamaicans say pikney.
Sarban oh and you would be familiar with the field of anthropology and humanities and who the teachers and professors are and because white people must not have any interest because they’re white? Close your trap. Racism is stupid
@@Ian-dn6ld But you keep it going with your kind of comments. The man was genuinely interested in the presentation, if he had said he was black you wouldnt have made that comment.
@@Ian-dn6ld well being that anthropology was founded to scientifically establish white supremacy over ‘primitive’ people, i agree racism is stupid but we gon have to eet iit
Blood Bath and Beyond - Pop Goes Metal Covers bitch stfu. Seriously stop being such a little bitch about people wanting to know what the story is about
@Dee Jones what is proper english, Gullah Geechee is a language and culture of its own, some of us have what you call proper English, as a second language, but our dialect is Geechee.
Outside of when she spoke English, I did not understood absolutely anything she said because to my Amer ear, this sounds like total gibberish. She, however, is very animated and seems to be telling/acting out an interesting story along with clapping.
@@ImehSmith To me, it sounds like a mix of Spanish ( in pronouncation ), English words time to time, but mostly African origin vocabulary, it does sound like it is not analytical.
I understand some of it. I got 'binya', 'ting', 'mix up mix up', 'ting spread ee wing', 'fust (first) ting ee do', den dat ting been eya (proceeds to make bird sounds)...., dat ting den eya flap'ee wings and den'eeya (proceeds with bird sounds).
Uh. What, that’s super interesting! I know that this is english, but I don’t understand anything! Wow fascinating! I hope this dialect/language is preserved, it’s almost criminal that TV and Radio have americanized this language so much.
I totally agree with what you said. Linguists say the lang that becomes standard in a nation is the lang with the biggest army and guns. However, this is totally NOT English. I may have some English words but the pronunciation and grammar are nothing similar to English.
This is like looking into the American past almost. Like how black Americans used to look before all the white admixture, and speaking an Africanized language such as this with massa’s house in the background is if it was slavery days. This is a trip.
Well outside the fact that I understood absolutely nothing she said (because to my Amer ear, this sounds like total gibberish) except when she spoke English, she is very animated and seems to be telling/acting out an interesting story along with clapping. Thing is she speaks very proper, clear English like she's a univ prof or something…which she prob is.
GULLAH and AAL are of african origin. I have a couple of videos on my channel that briefly go into it. White linguists intentionally don’t research African languages and simply put anything that has commonality between African speech and European speech as a dialect of Europe (typical white supremacy). Topically applied vocabulary is not what determines a language, like someone else said it’s its underlying structure and when you properly study these african diasporic languages you’ll see it for what it is. For example, English is an analytic language, so it has low morpheme per word ratio. What that means is that I cannot have more than one meaning assigned to a word. So the word “bake” cannot consist of other meanings (trying to simplify it and not get all linguistic lol) but in african languages, and in particular west and central Africa aka Bantu or Niger Congo, it has an agglutinative structure, so that means high morpheme per word ratio, meaning I can have more than one meaning in what looks like “one word” this feature carries over into Gullah, AAL and other diasporic languages, this is not a feature of european language systems and in particular English. So this is why we get constructions in America like “lemme” “innit” “innat” “talmbout” etc these constructions do not come from Europeans and Europeans not in constant contact with African based languages like in America, will not naturally develop these patterns because it’s not of their culture/English. Bantu languages are also open syllabic in preference, so it prefers to follow a pattern of cvcv or get as close as possible to ending on a vowel in relation to homogenous clusters. Consonant clusters are rare in African languages especially on the ends of words, so you’ll get things like “DOH” “DA” “BROTHA, BRUDDA, SISTA” “FO/FUH” (heterogenous clusters keep their ending)... it’s the word “FOR” that was treated the way Niger Congo grammar works..the “or” in For is homogenous, so it gets replaced with what the rules state within that grammatical structure, “get as close to cvcv as possible” there is some variation with that pattern as well. Consonant clusters (2 or more consonants together) are extremely rare in African languages. Ever wonder why we chose names like “TIKA, TOMEKA, KEIA, DEANDRE” etc? It was in keeping with an african grammatical shape. Really dig into who you are. Many black linguists have researched this info, some whites were honest about it but were limited in their research at the time. You’ll always have the sellouts.
Do you guys know most of words are direct words from some Africa language. I speak 4 Africa languages and I’ve 3 words from those languages. That’s amazing!!
Curious about the role of this language in the community, seeing as the comments range from "don't understand at all" to "been around it all my life but don't understand" to "this is exactly how my family speaks". Is Gullah generally only spoken in homes? Can you ever expect to go to a store and get service in Gullah? Is it used in church? Is it a language often used between friends or just within the family? Greatly appreciate any feedback.
You right I am from james island and this is our native language not standard english. We use standard english for jobs outside of charleston and even there we can't hide out accent.
For one thing, it's the language of the sea islands. They became the homes of the former slaves, who'd formerly worked on plantations on the islands, after the civil war, Wealthy white landowners abandoned them to the freedmen, seeing it would be too expensive to grow the Carolina Gold rice if they had to pay workers (and also cotton, I believe: Sea Island cotton) to grow it. There was also a problem of the land being stripped of its fertillity, I believe I remember, since it had not been managed well, with nothing to replenish the fertility the monocultures took out (especially cotton, I believe, but I'm telling you what I remember from elementary school). So the land had to revert back to the forests and tidal flats, which healed it. Yet the Gullah/Geechee people made lovely little homesteads, farming and fishing for their livings. They didn't have a lot of money, but they had a community, and a lovely place to live. There was a lack of easy transportation to the mainland, which contributed to the isolation, and the people who lived there just kept using their language as they always had.
I grew up in the north but my family is from SC. We are Geechee/Gullah. This is our home language. We dont speak it with "outsiders" because its a different language. Its different in the south, though.
I was told that the field slaves and houses servants spoke Gullah so the masters couldn't understand what they were saying. I suppose those who had better repore between one another didn't feel the need to slide in and out of the differing dialects during conversation. Its a way of being non inclusive. But I am happy for them that they were able to preserve some of their African culture. It must have been very hard to arrive in American generations ago to find a strange new environment and try to understand your relationship to those around you. You have to admire what a strong people they were and still are. They just want to live here peacefully for the most part and love their low country roots.
So this language has Bantu roots? Sounds similar, since now I know the real messiah was a Congo, and he, actually spoke Lingala. Simon Toko is a man that showed up in Angola who was the 3rd secret of Fatima, and was the child from Revelation 12, the messiah incognito. He had all the abilities of the real messiah, and brought down the Holy Spirit in Africa. Especially, now that I know the 400 years we've been here are the same 400 years from Genesis 15, it makes sense that some original Hebrews were able to protect some form of their original Bantu heritage. When they praise The Most High they say Kembo Kembo Natatan Nzambi Yama Zulu. And I understand that the secret name of the messiah is Kousoua Kongo, who Satan mock regularly as King Kong.
@@jamesahern9864 I beg to differ, because I had an encounter with Him. The reason people say there's no messiah is because it's already been determined that you will be separated from the Father for eternity, and there's no need for the trial. Also, He's the Messiah of the real Jews. What most people don't realize is that the real Jews are still scattered, so He only reveals Himself to them, and those that are, actually, helping His scattered sheep.
oh man turn on the closed captions people the bot's trying to caption it but its comeing out with random words cause its so close to english...... LMFAO
Am I wrong to believe that this language was George Lucas' inspiration for Jar Jar Binx? No doubt the Star Wars franchise based the Gungan speech after a stereotyped version of Gullah.
I speak Tok Pisin, which is a pidgin mostly spoken in the Northern part of the main island of New Guinea. To me, the character Jar Jar Binx sounds a lot more like a Tok Pisin speaker than a Gullah speaker. Regardless, pidgins like Gullah and Tok Pisin have a bad name because they are linked to plantations (and sometimes slave labour). I am not surprised Jar Jar's speech offended some people. On the other hand, Tok Pisin is an incredibly flexible language that can be learned quickly and used between groups who couldn't otherwise speak to each other. I'm sure Gullah has much of the same flexibility and vigour. It's something to celebrate, even if it did arise bad circumstances.
it's wondeful to see africans, african descendants telling their own stories, remembering every detail of their ancestor traditions before the massa came to destroy it.
To my Gullah/Geechees... The name Gullah is in the Strong's Bible dictionary as a Hebrew name on the Hebrew section 1353 (Please look this up for yourselves) . Yah'll (we) are Hebrews. Our names were not mis-pronounced as Angola or Golas although some of our ancestors were from there. Geechees are the Yamasee or Yahmassee (Yah) (Yahweh) who were also Hebrews (Maroons, Guale, Yamacraw, Creek Aborigines) Cum-by-Yah, Ah-ha-Yah, We-Ben-Yah (We Son of Yah), Hallelu-Yah
Interesting that as an English speaker I don't have too much trouble understanding Carolyn White's Gullah or most of the other Gullah videos on TH-cam, but I can't make heads or tails of this young lady's words. Is she really speaking the same language as the others?
The original gullah/geechie is mixed where you can't understand it. You would have to find someone really old that speak the original language besides the beautiful lady in this video.
Gullah and Gullah Geechee are not the same language, Gullah Geechee is much closer to proper English while Gullah is a language of its own, with an English base, but heavy accent and many west african loan words.
Well most gullah people traced there roots to the west indians to west africa but our accent and language is almost identical to the bahamian dialect and bajan accent. The people of the bahamas call us distant relatives because of the gullah-bahamian connection we share and because some our food and culture is very similar because of the slave were trade from there and barbados too. We gullah/geechee do have a different accent and language then the mainlanders in the united states because of the isolation from the mainland and influences of the west indies during the slave trade.
@logtype47 I recently saw a quantitative topological study in which Jamaican & Central American Anglo-Creoles and Louisiana Franco-Creole are closer together structurally than to any respective related lexifier creoles. This may explain it historically!
It's hard for a native English, non-Gullah speaker to understand spoken Gullah, but if you look at written Gullah - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gullah_language#Samples you might be able to make out the meaning.
Try languages in Los Angeles. 40% of residents are foreign born, including 2 sisters-in-law and my girlfriend. Typical day - I end up speaking in English/Tijuana Spanish/French. Last Thursday, at Costco, had to switch to Italian in part. My dad, anglo, born in MS. Spoke English, Latin, German, and Tagolich. Taught me to write German in the old script. Go to the San Fernando Valley and the girls speak what we call "Valley Speak". Go 13 miles into S. Central LA and the girls speak in ubonics. Had some Haitian Creole readings at the end of last year. Could not understood the written. Somewhat understood the spoken.
Interesting how some culture's language is loud and abrasive while another is quite soft. I just finished viewing a Japanese video and decided to watch this, really picked me up in my seat, lol.
I watched another teaching video last night, by another lady from here, and she was very gentle (and easier to understand!). I believe that this lady gives us what she remembers, but she probably exaggerates some things in order to get over the fact that it was another language, and she also exaggerates to keep it interesting! I think she uses folk story telling techniques, which account for a lot of it, but mostly, I think it is just her relating a favorite old story, and remembered people's ways in telling it. The _sound_ of the story. Its fascinating, but I agree that it would be more interesting if it was a little easier to parse out some of the words, and not feel so clueless! I understood some of the gestures and sound effects, and could believe that someone telling it in the old days, might have been exacyly like that. The video could be given subtitles, but she gives this live, and you can't subtitle live! Maybe she passed around a written version of the story that we didn't see.
The beautiful thing about this is that THIS IS AMERICAN! Just as American as baseball and apple pie. I’m sorry for the reasons that it was created, but it is beautiful that our ancestors created it. All Americans need to recognize and celebrate all parts of our shared history.
IKR Outside of when she spoke English, I did not understood absolutely anything she said because to my Amer ear, this sounds like total gibberish. She, however, is very animated and seems to be telling/acting out an interesting story along with clapping.
I would love for our blackness to STOP explaining ourselves to whites.cant we have any one thing to ourselves?eveything turning into storytime for entertainment while you,whites,have the whole world.we really needs to demonstrate to our own descendents and noone else.
Lord have mercy, I thought spanish was fast ,I thought since gullah is an English creole it'd be slower like English, so it looks like I might stick to learning something a bit slower, I'll just admire this from a distance haha, I like the idea of creole French with its simple grammer I remember finding that I knew basically no French but found its sentence structure to be more understandable than spanish my vocabulary is spanish is pretty good way more than anyone who just took it in high-school, but the sentence structures in complex sentences can get kind of Wonky ,if I could fuse spanish vocabulary and the French or English sentence structure I'd be fluent in weeks 😄
I love this stuff, can't understand a word of it, but it is outside the White world. Don't you get bored of the white world sometimes? I'm hoping for ET visitation to break up the monopoly of whiteness.
A translation would be cool. A couple of words in the language seem similar to the Ulster Scot Scot Irish that settled in the same coastal Carolina's so seems 0layed at least a minor part not necessarily good. But Scottish Hymn's and Spirituals were an influence in music and religion. Wish there weren't the bad and uglier too go with what was some of the good. Not every master and slave throughout history hated each other and you spend a life time together there is at least a little respect. Some where like brothers in the good way.
@yaya javon "you mad because White Americans like yourself have no culture. oh wait it's racism." Okay, try this: " you're mad, not you mad." It's called English. Try learning it. Or, better yet, just stick with Gullah,
This is my mom. Sharon Cooper Murray.
Haint Blue Porch Ceiling wow my name is Ny'Jah Cooper and in my family tree book I have a bunch of Murray’s
@@glamcoupxo8640 I have Murrays in mine also .
Awesome.
Your mother is teaching and preserving the ways of the ancestors and that is a very noble thing.
@@WorkHardBeNice watched this some years ago. Made my Soul jump. Reminded me of my Great Grandmother and the Generation some 25-30 years ago on their last days. Beautiful to see us before us
In the Army, I was stationed with a guy who identified as Geechee. At first, he was nearly unintelligible, but as we got used to his speech, he shared amazing stories of his life in rural, coastal Florida. He taught me Gullah words and phrases, which became our personal memes. We became quite close, but we lost touch (pre-social media). I've tried to find him, with no luck. It's a shame, really.
Hope you will find him soon ^ ^
Where exactly in coastal FL…can you recall?
@@WeightNarc Jacksonville area
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I kno what she talking I heard this story as little boy at school and the gullah performers came to my school this story has something to do with a bird talk to another animals.
I got sooo excited when I realized that she was telling the story and I knew what she was talking about.
Joshua Middleton I have to let her know you remember her story from school. She's the only storyteller that tells this particular story. So I know she'll be excited.
If it hasn't already been done, she should make a bilingual illustrated book about the story with Gulla and English.
Kirsten Courtney
Why?
I thought there must have been some birds, or maybe a rooster!
This is wonderful. I’ve read about Gullah for years, but I had never heard it. It just dawned on me tonight that there would be examples of it on TH-cam, and I found this. Thank you so much for posting it.
I took my 8th graders to Boone Hall and had the privilege of watching one of her stories. Amazing!!
there a book call Gulluh Fuh Oonuh (Gullah for you) A Guide to the gullah language By Virginia Mixson Geraty.
Is it useful? Are there recordings etc?
this how we talk in charleston my grandmother sound exaclty like this
My dad, who lived in Charleston twice when he was a child (1920s and 30s) would have loved this.
Marcquise Mclemore my uncle & cousins & all they kids sound exactly like this
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My father’s family is from the Georgetown area of SC. I hear my aunties when she speaks♥️
Really?!
😨😨😨
Outside of when she spoke English, I did not understood absolutely anything she said because to my Amer ear, this sounds like total gibberish. She, however, is very animated and seems to be telling/acting out an interesting story along with clapping.
This was simply Beautiful ☺️ I loved her speaking in her Gullah Language and Dialect! Simply Amazing 🥲
I am trying to learn more about Gullah people and culture. My dad's father was from Louisiana and he was Gullah. I never met my grandfather. However, it is important to me to understand that side of my family. Only my mom and I really talk about it.
Eric Morris that’s cool!! I’m black and I’m from Delaware but I wish I had a little bit more ties to communities like this lol. It makes me proud to be african American with our various cultures. I hope you get more info about your background tho
I'm from Louisiana and my grandad mom was gullah
@@martinsmith2258ayyyeee! I’m from Delaware too 1st generation. My mom is first generation to live in Philly. And my mommom was from North Carolina. My dad grew up in Florida but his peoples is from Georgia. Both my parents say their parents spoke geechee but my mom’s side banned them from doing so because it was seen as improper English. My dad knows a lot of words and phrases/ sayings. But understands it more then he can speak it. He’s lost some of it since moving to DE when he was 18 for college and settled here with my mama. But its been fun talking to my elders about what life was like for them. They tell me things a book could never about myself.
💘 Love my Gullah ancestors, Proud of my ancestors
I speak Jamaican Patois. I think it's similar. I understand a little bit of it. It's so fast! 😅
Hello this is your mom wow she’s amazing I’m also Gullah from the Florida region though my great grandmother use to speak us in Gullah but I was too young to understand but I’m learning from different videos I come across online. I’m very interested in my heritage is it possible if you can send the words of the story.
It's said that we are the same people. Taken from the same region. This is why. Geechee and Jamaicans can understand one another.
The best Gullah I have heard. Love it so much
I LOVE HOW SHE TOLD THE STORY. I would have loved to been there in person😊😊❤️❤️❤️❤️
Subtitles would have been useful.
Bitch this English. Get out more lol
It's not English at all, wtf? It's Gullah.
Its a very specific dialect of English. For Brits, this is near incomprehensible, and we decipher the scots!
@@NapalmFlame i completely agree, I cant understand any of it, and i can decipher welsh!
Blood Bath and Beyond - Pop Goes Metal Covers no it’s not😂😂 it’s made from English but it’s also made from African.
Wow, I was just researching Gullah, because I heard a quote. And as i was researching I saw Geechee. I had a uncle that my parents use to call Geechee and I never knew that it was a region of people. He was from Mississippi I think this is very interesting.!!!
Thank you,
Well, there is also Ogeechee, a river, I believe. I'm guessing that the river was named after the people, rather than the other way around, since the name Geechee seems to have come from Africa, the Bahamas or the Caribbean.
Interesting. Ive heard there are a small portion of black pple with this same dialect in a rural part of Mississippi and also Alabama. Ive heard this from 2 different pple.
@Jonathan Rose You have to remember no ethnic group stayed only local to their areas. Especially those from Africa who arrived in South Carolina. It was the largest slave port, I believe? At the least one of the largest. So, people traveled, and definitely were sold to states across the South. I'm from Mississippi, and we actually use many of the words such as Innit, instead of ' aint it'....Also, listening and reading some of the Gullah language I noticed they begin words with the letter 'D'. We do that in Mississippi as well...For instance, "Dat is crazy dey went down dea'"....I really appreciate you mentioning Black Seminoles language..That is surely something I will research....Thank you. :)
there a book call Gulluh Fuh Oonuh (Gullah for you) A Guide to the gullah language By Virginia Mixson Geraty. Am reading it to learn Gullah myself.
it depends on where your from i believe. My family is from Ga and an Im from NJ and I can barely cant understand anything they say. In Ga there are Freshwater and Saltwater Geechee. I think its easier for you to understand because they are Freshwater Gullah/Geechee. There are some in Alabama who's words are the same but accent are different so it depends on where you are. S Carolina Gullah/Geechee sounds more Caribbean which makes it more easy
Harris neck island st. Simon islands
Also! The Creoles have a very distinct and diverse dialect as well! Even in different sections of New Orleans speak differently!
I wonder if my great great grandfather was Geechee. He was from South Carolina but my great aunt used to say he had a strange accent. I wonder...
@@kwameadu0075 Could be. Looking further in my ancesty it's looking like Gullah of the Carolinas moved south and developed a delifferent accent/way of talkin which Is similar but different. I've always known my family to come from Georgia. Recently I found out that they were actually from/ sold in south Carolina and eventually sold as slaves in Georgia
Is there an interpretation to this story? I want to learn the language as well.
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This LOOKS like it would be a pretty good story, but I couldn't understand much. I wish there was a translation.
thank you AC46277 I do wish that we knew our roots and heritage as it was originally.
thats like Nigerian pidgin Gulla fo una nigerians would say Una (Oona) which is derived from the Igbo word Unu (Oonu) which means you=plural or like y'all
djt241 also in jamaican patois oonu means you all. nice to know.😊
Jamaicans say Ona 2
@@paradisecrescent2 Yes Jamaicans kept a lot of Nigerian culture, although the words changed (diluted) over time. For instance in Nigerian pigeon English we refer to children as pikin... whereas Jamaicans say pikney.
We use that word in Jamaica as well.
@@MsNubiandiva Gullah elders use to say pikney too
I understood when she said “take to the wind” 😅
I find it really strange that, she sounds Bahamian and I'm able to understand mostly everything that she's saying.
Because she does have roots in 🇧🇸😭Gullah are AFRO CARIB PEOPLE AS WELL JUST ENDED UP IN NORTH AMERICA
@@mssadity114 Other way around. Gullah was sent to the Bahamas
MsSadity Their American so stop tryna claim a culture that’s already been here
i was thinking the same thing i was picking out some patois words but like i’m also like ?? “
What is it about?
73 yr old white male and I thought that was just plain cool.
Thanks for keeping the language moving forward.
Not sure why you had to include that you were "white?" like that is supposed to give you any clout
@@Ian-dn6ld Probably cause its not very common for a white person to be interested in such a video.
Sarban oh and you would be familiar with the field of anthropology and humanities and who the teachers and professors are and because white people must not have any interest because they’re white? Close your trap. Racism is stupid
@@Ian-dn6ld But you keep it going with your kind of comments. The man was genuinely interested in the presentation, if he had said he was black you wouldnt have made that comment.
@@Ian-dn6ld well being that anthropology was founded to scientifically establish white supremacy over ‘primitive’ people, i agree racism is stupid but we gon have to eet iit
Subtitles would be invaluable. The language is beautiful and fascinating, but even more so if we can know the meaning.
Bitch this English. Get out more lol
Blood Bath and Beyond - Pop Goes Metal Covers bitch stfu. Seriously stop being such a little bitch about people wanting to know what the story is about
@Dee Jones what is proper english, Gullah Geechee is a language and culture of its own, some of us have what you call proper English, as a second language, but our dialect is Geechee.
@Dee Jones There is no such thing as speaking "proper" English. It's a racist ideal.
These person recording might not have known what she was saying either. 🥴
Wow. It’s crazy I naturally understand every word she said. An I never heard of Gullah until now it popped up!
I can partly understand a few words, but hard to recognize anything
Same with me. I only recently learned that kumbaya (as in the song) is 'come by here' in gullah.
Outside of when she spoke English, I did not understood absolutely anything she said because to my Amer ear, this sounds like total gibberish. She, however, is very animated and seems to be telling/acting out an interesting story along with clapping.
@@ImehSmith To me, it sounds like a mix of Spanish ( in pronouncation ), English words time to time, but mostly African origin vocabulary, it does sound like it is not analytical.
It almost sounds like a mix between Bahamian, the old Jive slanguage and American scatting.
They're such a musical people
Beautiful language
I understand some of it. I got 'binya', 'ting', 'mix up mix up', 'ting spread ee wing', 'fust (first) ting ee do', den dat ting been eya (proceeds to make bird sounds)...., dat ting den eya flap'ee wings and den'eeya (proceeds with bird sounds).
I can make out some of the words in text...but this was impossible for me. Very interesting.
Uh. What, that’s super interesting! I know that this is english, but I don’t understand anything! Wow fascinating! I hope this dialect/language is preserved, it’s almost criminal that TV and Radio have americanized this language so much.
I totally agree with what you said. Linguists say the lang that becomes standard in a nation is the lang with the biggest army and guns.
However, this is totally NOT English. I may have some English words but the pronunciation and grammar are nothing similar to English.
This is like looking into the American past almost. Like how black Americans used to look before all the white admixture, and speaking an Africanized language such as this with massa’s house in the background is if it was slavery days. This is a trip.
🤔🤔👍
Wtf 😂
Well outside the fact that I understood absolutely nothing she said (because to my Amer ear, this sounds like total gibberish) except when she spoke English, she is very animated and seems to be telling/acting out an interesting story along with clapping.
Thing is she speaks very proper, clear English like she's a univ prof or something…which she prob is.
I want to go here...
can you train your ear to understand it like Guyanese?
Spiritual is the geechee people so deeply spiritual discipline
My Father is Nigerian & he does sound like that.
That is because she is Gulla
Did you understand her?
Nigerians don’t sound anything like this..
I would really like to learn Gullah. =)
True. It's beautiful.
GULLAH and AAL are of african origin. I have a couple of videos on my channel that briefly go into it. White linguists intentionally don’t research African languages and simply put anything that has commonality between African speech and European speech as a dialect of Europe (typical white supremacy). Topically applied vocabulary is not what determines a language, like someone else said it’s its underlying structure and when you properly study these african diasporic languages you’ll see it for what it is. For example, English is an analytic language, so it has low morpheme per word ratio. What that means is that I cannot have more than one meaning assigned to a word. So the word “bake” cannot consist of other meanings (trying to simplify it and not get all linguistic lol) but in african languages, and in particular west and central Africa aka Bantu or Niger Congo, it has an agglutinative structure, so that means high morpheme per word ratio, meaning I can have more than one meaning in what looks like “one word” this feature carries over into Gullah, AAL and other diasporic languages, this is not a feature of european language systems and in particular English.
So this is why we get constructions in America like “lemme” “innit” “innat” “talmbout” etc these constructions do not come from Europeans and Europeans not in constant contact with African based languages like in America, will not naturally develop these patterns because it’s not of their culture/English.
Bantu languages are also open syllabic in preference, so it prefers to follow a pattern of cvcv or get as close as possible to ending on a vowel in relation to homogenous clusters. Consonant clusters are rare in African languages especially on the ends of words, so you’ll get things like “DOH” “DA” “BROTHA, BRUDDA, SISTA”
“FO/FUH” (heterogenous clusters keep their ending)... it’s the word “FOR” that was treated the way Niger Congo grammar works..the “or” in For is homogenous, so it gets replaced with what the rules state within that grammatical structure, “get as close to cvcv as possible” there is some variation with that pattern as well. Consonant clusters (2 or more consonants together) are extremely rare in African languages. Ever wonder why we chose names like “TIKA, TOMEKA, KEIA, DEANDRE” etc? It was in keeping with an african grammatical shape.
Really dig into who you are. Many black linguists have researched this info, some whites were honest about it but were limited in their research at the time. You’ll always have the sellouts.
Do you guys know most of words are direct words from some Africa language. I speak 4 Africa languages and I’ve 3 words from those languages. That’s amazing!!
Curious about the role of this language in the community, seeing as the comments range from "don't understand at all" to "been around it all my life but don't understand" to "this is exactly how my family speaks". Is Gullah generally only spoken in homes? Can you ever expect to go to a store and get service in Gullah? Is it used in church? Is it a language often used between friends or just within the family? Greatly appreciate any feedback.
the audio quality isn't too great either, I speak it but I couldn't get certain parts.
You right I am from james island and this is our native language not standard english. We use standard english for jobs outside of charleston and even there we can't hide out accent.
For one thing, it's the language of the sea islands. They became the homes of the former slaves, who'd formerly worked on plantations on the islands, after the civil war, Wealthy white landowners abandoned them to the freedmen, seeing it would be too expensive to grow the Carolina Gold rice if they had to pay workers (and also cotton, I believe: Sea Island cotton) to grow it. There was also a problem of the land being stripped of its fertillity, I believe I remember, since it had not been managed well, with nothing to replenish the fertility the monocultures took out (especially cotton, I believe, but I'm telling you what I remember from elementary school). So the land had to revert back to the forests and tidal flats, which healed it. Yet the Gullah/Geechee people made lovely little homesteads, farming and fishing for their livings. They didn't have a lot of money, but they had a community, and a lovely place to live. There was a lack of easy transportation to the mainland, which contributed to the isolation, and the people who lived there just kept using their language as they always had.
I grew up in the north but my family is from SC. We are Geechee/Gullah. This is our home language. We dont speak it with "outsiders" because its a different language. Its different in the south, though.
The audio is not greatest and i think that's whats throwing some pple.
I was told that the field slaves and houses servants spoke Gullah so the masters couldn't understand what they were saying. I suppose those who had better repore between one another didn't feel the need to slide in and out of the differing dialects during conversation. Its a way of being non inclusive. But I am happy for them that they were able to preserve some of their African culture. It must have been very hard to arrive in American generations ago to find a strange new environment and try to understand your relationship to those around you. You have to admire what a strong people they were and still are. They just want to live here peacefully for the most part and love their low country roots.
So this language has Bantu roots? Sounds similar, since now I know the real messiah was a Congo, and he, actually spoke Lingala. Simon Toko is a man that showed up in Angola who was the 3rd secret of Fatima, and was the child from Revelation 12, the messiah incognito. He had all the abilities of the real messiah, and brought down the Holy Spirit in Africa. Especially, now that I know the 400 years we've been here are the same 400 years from Genesis 15, it makes sense that some original Hebrews were able to protect some form of their original Bantu heritage. When they praise The Most High they say Kembo Kembo Natatan Nzambi Yama Zulu. And I understand that the secret name of the messiah is Kousoua Kongo, who Satan mock regularly as King Kong.
NSambu Ulolo! The greeting for the Sabbath like the word Sambo, or Samba.
There is no messiah
@@jamesahern9864 I beg to differ, because I had an encounter with Him. The reason people say there's no messiah is because it's already been determined that you will be separated from the Father for eternity, and there's no need for the trial. Also, He's the Messiah of the real Jews. What most people don't realize is that the real Jews are still scattered, so He only reveals Himself to them, and those that are, actually, helping His scattered sheep.
Wooow am from Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 but I can understand very well this Gullah language. Wooow this na we brother them 😊😅
My family is from your country, hello cousin. I am from America.
oh man turn on the closed captions people the bot's trying to caption it but its comeing out with random words cause its so close to english...... LMFAO
Am I wrong to believe that this language was George Lucas' inspiration for Jar Jar Binx? No doubt the Star Wars franchise based the Gungan speech after a stereotyped version of Gullah.
I can see that connection and influence too
She does sound like Jar Jar. Lucas did use existing languages before.
The Ewoks was from the Kalmyk language.
Ramon Suarez you are completely correct. That is why the character was so offensive to so many people.
I speak Tok Pisin, which is a pidgin mostly spoken in the Northern part of the main island of New Guinea. To me, the character Jar Jar Binx sounds a lot more like a Tok Pisin speaker than a Gullah speaker. Regardless, pidgins like Gullah and Tok Pisin have a bad name because they are linked to plantations (and sometimes slave labour). I am not surprised Jar Jar's speech offended some people. On the other hand, Tok Pisin is an incredibly flexible language that can be learned quickly and used between groups who couldn't otherwise speak to each other. I'm sure Gullah has much of the same flexibility and vigour. It's something to celebrate, even if it did arise bad circumstances.
I think it was inspired by African English-based creoles, generally.
it's wondeful to see africans, african descendants telling their own stories, remembering every detail of their ancestor traditions before the massa came to destroy it.
whats wrong w ur pic!!
@@dgn9330 what's wrong with your brain, lol.
I love ur profile name. Ashe
@@babayu7125 ashe ashe
good video but sub titles mabye
Was this a different language or just an extremely hard to understand English dialect ? Just a question. I couldn't understand any of it.
Bad sound quality. You could probably make a good bit of it out if she were close to the mike.
Excuse me, stewardess. I speak gullah
Good foreshadowing of the debutante ball in Borat 2
Binya binya
This is cool
so, Eddie Murphy spoke Gullah when he did his "Buckwheat" imitations, right?
a comical version of it.
He spoke "Buckwheat" in those.
He racist
Reminds me a bit of Louisiana
To my Gullah/Geechees... The name Gullah is in the Strong's Bible dictionary as a Hebrew name on the Hebrew section 1353 (Please look this up for yourselves)
. Yah'll (we) are Hebrews. Our names were not mis-pronounced as Angola or Golas although some of our ancestors were from there. Geechees are the Yamasee or Yahmassee (Yah) (Yahweh) who were also Hebrews (Maroons, Guale, Yamacraw, Creek Aborigines) Cum-by-Yah, Ah-ha-Yah, We-Ben-Yah (We Son of Yah), Hallelu-Yah
Tf are you going on about 💀
Interesting that as an English speaker I don't have too much trouble understanding Carolyn White's Gullah or most of the other Gullah videos on TH-cam, but I can't make heads or tails of this young lady's words. Is she really speaking the same language as the others?
They are slowing it down to be understood, and she is speaking it the way she remenbers hearing it.
The original gullah/geechie is mixed where you can't understand it. You would have to find someone really old that speak the original language besides the beautiful lady in this video.
Gullah and Gullah Geechee are not the same language, Gullah Geechee is much closer to proper English while Gullah is a language of its own, with an English base, but heavy accent and many west african loan words.
No subtitles shoots brah
Bitch this English. Get out more lol
love it!
I can only understand the part where she says
"Did need nothing to do with you gggrrhgg
sounds west indian
Dudeluv212 For the most part, no.
Well most gullah people traced there roots to the west indians to west africa but our accent and language is almost identical to the bahamian dialect and bajan accent. The people of the bahamas call us distant relatives because of the gullah-bahamian connection we share and because some our food and culture is very similar because of the slave were trade from there and barbados too. We gullah/geechee do have a different accent and language then the mainlanders in the united states because of the isolation from the mainland and influences of the west indies during the slave trade.
No she right they have West Indian roots
@logtype47
I recently saw a quantitative topological study in which Jamaican & Central American Anglo-Creoles and Louisiana Franco-Creole are closer together structurally than to any respective related lexifier creoles. This may explain it historically!
@@mssadity114 No we donot
It's hard for a native English, non-Gullah speaker to understand spoken Gullah, but if you look at written Gullah - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gullah_language#Samples you might be able to make out the meaning.
is it language?
Try languages in Los Angeles. 40% of residents are foreign born, including 2 sisters-in-law and my girlfriend. Typical day - I end up speaking in English/Tijuana Spanish/French. Last Thursday, at Costco, had to switch to Italian in part. My dad, anglo, born in MS. Spoke English, Latin, German, and Tagolich. Taught me to write German in the old script. Go to the San Fernando Valley and the girls speak what we call "Valley Speak". Go 13 miles into S. Central LA and the girls speak in ubonics. Had some Haitian Creole readings at the end of last year. Could not understood the written. Somewhat understood the spoken.
Interesting how some culture's language is loud and abrasive while another is quite soft. I just finished viewing a Japanese video and decided to watch this, really picked me up in my seat, lol.
I watched another teaching video last night, by another lady from here, and she was very gentle (and easier to understand!). I believe that this lady gives us what she remembers, but she probably exaggerates some things in order to get over the fact that it was another language, and she also exaggerates to keep it interesting! I think she uses folk story telling techniques, which account for a lot of it, but mostly, I think it is just her relating a favorite old story, and remembered people's ways in telling it. The _sound_ of the story. Its fascinating, but I agree that it would be more interesting if it was a little easier to parse out some of the words, and not feel so clueless! I understood some of the gestures and sound effects, and could believe that someone telling it in the old days, might have been exacyly like that. The video could be given subtitles, but she gives this live, and you can't subtitle live! Maybe she passed around a written version of the story that we didn't see.
That white woman slowly made her escape @ 1:35 😂😂😂 I guess that storyteller got too close for comfort
I think maybe she went to stand with her husband or someone, and to get out of the camera's eye.
The beautiful thing about this is that THIS IS AMERICAN! Just as American as baseball and apple pie. I’m sorry for the reasons that it was created, but it is beautiful that our ancestors created it. All Americans need to recognize and celebrate all parts of our shared history.
Umm no it isn’t.
Yes it’s beautiful, but I was created by enslaved Africans and it is definitely not as American as apple pie and baseball.
also unless you are geechee you have nothing to do with it or it’s creation
@@iamibie Umm, yes it is.
The Geechee are American. I’m American. I celebrate the beauty of all Americans.
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Thank you so much!!!!!
She sounds like my grand father
Oh my goodness I am lost lol
IKR
Outside of when she spoke English, I did not understood absolutely anything she said because to my Amer ear, this sounds like total gibberish. She, however, is very animated and seems to be telling/acting out an interesting story along with clapping.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Gullah Geechee
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I Hear You
Thank You ❤
2:09 fart jokes are an universal good, defying race, religion and culture
dat tin dadadada... lol.. that's all i heard
Cool.
I saw this at school today and it was so funny we got in trouble but we couldn't take it
I would love for our blackness to STOP explaining ourselves to whites.cant we have any one thing to ourselves?eveything turning into storytime for entertainment while you,whites,have the whole world.we really needs to demonstrate to our own descendents and noone else.
I think it's very interesting. I don't think it was offered for our entertainment, but for the world to learn who the Geechee Gullah people are.
black is wonderful
1:26 lattice
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Gullah is African base;
I can only understand binya
Lord have mercy, I thought spanish was fast ,I thought since gullah is an English creole it'd be slower like English, so it looks like I might stick to learning something a bit slower, I'll just admire this from a distance haha, I like the idea of creole French with its simple grammer I remember finding that I knew basically no French but found its sentence structure to be more understandable than spanish my vocabulary is spanish is pretty good way more than anyone who just took it in high-school, but the sentence structures in complex sentences can get kind of Wonky ,if I could fuse spanish vocabulary and the French or English sentence structure I'd be fluent in weeks 😄
I think I ear dancing maybe she telling a storie about a nigth wen she was partying which a bunch of people drinking
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Hey there!
Story has it that The Sims language is based on this
This is the closest thing we have to our African native tongue. I pray it continues to survive.
which african native tongue? lol theres hundreds of languages in africa
Are you Gullah?
Wow that was funny
I know one word: binyah.
Alex Krauth I think I caught “dayclean” in there too
whats that mean?
Snakeybakey it means someone who is native to one of the sea islands. It is meant to sound like the English phrase been here.
@@alika207 thanks
Snakeybakey you’re very welcome!
I love this stuff, can't understand a word of it, but it is outside the White world. Don't you get bored of the white world sometimes? I'm hoping for ET visitation to break up the monopoly of whiteness.
That woman in the background is the whitest woman I've ever seen lol
This is so funny with ain't nobody got time for that
A translation would be cool. A couple of words in the language seem similar to the Ulster Scot Scot Irish that settled in the same coastal Carolina's so seems 0layed at least a minor part not necessarily good. But Scottish Hymn's and Spirituals were an influence in music and religion. Wish there weren't the bad and uglier too go with what was some of the good. Not every master and slave throughout history hated each other and you spend a life time together there is at least a little respect. Some where like brothers in the good way.
Ok I get that this is Gullah and that it is its own language but honestly sounds like randomness to me... AAAAAAAAA *claps*
She still got the slave master name
So do you.
You’re speaking the language lol
Wtf
The power of Christ compels you!
The power of "minding your fucking business" should compel you. 🙄
Wow, Gullah sounds remarkably close to another well known language. I believe it's known as "Gibberish".
Idiot
@yaya javon "you mad because White Americans like yourself have no culture. oh wait it's racism." Okay, try this: " you're mad, not you mad." It's called English. Try learning it. Or, better yet, just stick with Gullah,
@@johngarnergarner6724 your mad cause you white americans dont have any culture but the confedrate flag