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@lingthrowaway4577

4 жыл бұрын

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

@tiehkaphloukxsburdein2012

4 жыл бұрын

@@MI-vn4tp check out tribe up

@MI-vn4tp

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

This sounds like a cross between deep southern and carribean.

@robertzamudio1987

3 жыл бұрын

She sounds like Bill Cosby

@clearlyc2438

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same. Carribean and southern.

@keptins

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah there is definately a dialect continuum

@amosculbreth5308

3 жыл бұрын

Alot of our ancestors in the Gullah community comes from Salone

@amosculbreth5308

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

@empressoftheuniverse1312

3 жыл бұрын

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

@farmgirl2cr

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

🙋🏽‍♀️ ENJOYING ♥️

@junebug74

3 жыл бұрын

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

@Ali9718

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

@ronica57

3 жыл бұрын

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

@danbarron594

3 жыл бұрын

Amen!

@Mook_DatWerk

Жыл бұрын

Let the church say Amen..

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

5 ай бұрын

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

5 ай бұрын

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

@EnemyTec

5 ай бұрын

@@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

23 күн бұрын

@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.

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

3 жыл бұрын

Go 'head, Sister!

@sheriefleming8117

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

@sparky6086

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

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.

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

@ebonywilliams-dillard4550

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

@Indicadores-de-problemas

3 жыл бұрын

Yass!!!😇😇😇

@jeannieanonie7932

3 жыл бұрын

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

@AMcDub0708

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

11 ай бұрын

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

@hardwired8084

11 ай бұрын

Wheeeeee … I am in Trinidad agreeing 100%!!

@africansnowqueenqueen3296

11 ай бұрын

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

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

9 ай бұрын

Wow thanks for the info G

@angelgregio

4 ай бұрын

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

@Quietstorm_ATL

3 ай бұрын

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

@GenerationNextNextNext

24 күн бұрын

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

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@chuckroberts5310

4 жыл бұрын

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

@obamastrollaccount4359

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

@kidjustice7945

5 жыл бұрын

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@louisecampbell8224

5 жыл бұрын

@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

5 жыл бұрын

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

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

3 жыл бұрын

🇻🇮

@tholleywood5686

3 жыл бұрын

Yes 👏🏽

@krisyblingaz

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! In Jamaica we say "backra massa"

@vanaxeldongenwigs3553

Жыл бұрын

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

@sira4487

Жыл бұрын

In my language, we say bakla

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

@gildawhitner6962

3 жыл бұрын

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

@deondrabeadle7586

3 жыл бұрын

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

@SunnyandNova

Жыл бұрын

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

@truthseeker9688

11 ай бұрын

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

11 ай бұрын

🇧🇿

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

@chrisg1621

3 жыл бұрын

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

@leestill6759

3 жыл бұрын

Lol 😂😇👌🏽

@SunflowahSage

3 жыл бұрын

Yessss !!!

@otajahjones3525

3 жыл бұрын

Frfr 😂

@Mook_DatWerk

Жыл бұрын

Same lol

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@nigelholland1714

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

Its barbados

@damanidorsey7255

4 жыл бұрын

Nope its straight bajan

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.

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

Жыл бұрын

Mbakra mean white man in ibo (afrikan language)

@robinlee2376

Жыл бұрын

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

@rudeboysandokhan442

11 ай бұрын

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

11 ай бұрын

It's a remnant of our common African ancestors

@Volcanic_Eruption

10 ай бұрын

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

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

@DavidDewarSr

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

She sounds same as Bajan Dialect as spoken in Barbados

@koolinwitk1789

4 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

@maniyembe

3 жыл бұрын

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..

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

4 жыл бұрын

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 hello@wikitongues.org. 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

3 жыл бұрын

Amen to the Low land Geechees out there

@gullahgullah790

3 жыл бұрын

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

@carolearcher-shim215

3 жыл бұрын

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

@londondeportier9407

3 жыл бұрын

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?

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

6 ай бұрын

You can just say you're Liberian

@winniesafi

6 ай бұрын

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

@coca1492

5 ай бұрын

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

@anikacorbett7714

4 ай бұрын

YES ITS DEFINITELY SIERRA LEONE AND ANGOLA TOO😅

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

Жыл бұрын

This culture will be around forever

@MegaTIGGER31

Жыл бұрын

We are one❤

@teovu5557

10 ай бұрын

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

6 ай бұрын

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

@EnemyTec

5 ай бұрын

@@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!

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

7 жыл бұрын

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

@HebrewHoney777

7 жыл бұрын

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

@reliablemaid

7 жыл бұрын

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

@HebrewHoney777

7 жыл бұрын

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

@shabazzallah9864

7 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

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.

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

@carolearcher-shim215

3 жыл бұрын

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

@MrNicopa

3 жыл бұрын

Not Bajan. Bahamian.

@NelliLowe

3 жыл бұрын

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

@njgiant1

3 жыл бұрын

FBA culture ✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾

We literally talk like her in the Bahamas

@morenaso1

8 жыл бұрын

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

@Chattianna

7 жыл бұрын

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

@esther265

7 жыл бұрын

same in sierra leone.

@webfeend

7 жыл бұрын

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

@jasmineknowles3324

7 жыл бұрын

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.

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

3 жыл бұрын

🌹YESSSSS🌹🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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

5 ай бұрын

She's american

@dmvbay2535

4 ай бұрын

@@Abstract.Noir414 duh

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

@brianbethea3069

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

@layli6108

2 жыл бұрын

@@jimbrown9885 say it again !!!!

@ahsokatano5394

2 жыл бұрын

@@jimbrown9885 All culters have goods and bads

@romanr.301

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

the way she seamlessly transitioned back and forth

@herstory82

3 жыл бұрын

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

@nopjack7278

3 жыл бұрын

Very fluently bilingual.

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!

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

2 ай бұрын

Barbados everybody do your due diligence !

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

@damanidorsey7255

4 жыл бұрын

No its straight up Bajan

@ms.williams1400

4 жыл бұрын

Yes she sounds just like a Bahamian

@carolynlee2512

3 жыл бұрын

We are One!

@LonnieE3g

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

7 жыл бұрын

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

@angelasantiago7426

6 жыл бұрын

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

5 жыл бұрын

Yes Honey Yes Aman!

@dejamesola

5 жыл бұрын

Angela Santiago VERY TRUE!

@hootiehootheblowphish4109

5 жыл бұрын

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.

If I closed my eyes I’d think I was listening to a Bahamian. Wow. I never realized how close their accent is to the Caribbean folks. Makes sense.

@gcoclarke

6 ай бұрын

I'm from Guyana but lived in the Bahamas for 15 years. This is definitely a Bahamian accent. Fun fact: the people of the Bahamas came from South Carolina to the Bahamas with their slave masters (called loyalists because they stayed loyal to the queen)

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

@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

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

5 жыл бұрын

app source - 100%

@juanitacjohnson2036

5 жыл бұрын

Radiance Blue c

@Richard-xo2uv

3 жыл бұрын

She is the normal one we are the abnormal ones.

@sisterhoodsistersforever7854

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed

@burlietowner2235

3 жыл бұрын

Yess she is. God bless you always maem.

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

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

@foreverdanah7390

3 жыл бұрын

Yep!

@lindahuggins6996

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. A pure soul.

@mgnwat

3 жыл бұрын

Yes!!!

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

@Mesha0630

3 жыл бұрын

Right 🤣

@sidranebynum6470

3 жыл бұрын

Yes ma'am

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

@lateshajohnson3622

3 жыл бұрын

Careful sometimes Geechee is EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE terminology for some southerners

@yoshiBRATZ

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@imaniwalker4975

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

Is all Liberian connection

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

11 ай бұрын

Texas, too. My granny spoke this way.

@BlackandIndi

11 ай бұрын

Same here!!! 🤠🥩🐄🐮

@slarvadain188

2 ай бұрын

@@LilliLamour Was your granny from Louisiana ?

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

@shaundiaz8558

5 жыл бұрын

Beaufort memories. great place to grow up

@heidiboyd8240

5 жыл бұрын

Im fr right across the water in Savannah,Ga

@neferalawton326

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@XHobbiesPrime

4 жыл бұрын

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

These comments are about to make me tear up. I’m from north Florida (which if you know anything about the south it’s South Georgia) and all of my grandmothers are from Georgia with roots in alabama and Mississippi. I can perfectly understand this woman and she sounds like my folks. I can also hear many carribean dialects as well and even a southern accent. All the foods she described we still eat. We’re truly all one people.

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

10 ай бұрын

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

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

@dreadloc9378

3 жыл бұрын

Who dis from Snowden?

@dreadloc9378

3 жыл бұрын

I from Snowden 2

@KingFrazier843

3 жыл бұрын

@@dreadloc9378 My last name Frazier.

@cherylleech785

3 жыл бұрын

I'm envious! Sounds wonderful!

@The843legendz

3 жыл бұрын

Rite

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

@astroziga9233

5 жыл бұрын

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

@DeShonFaNaKa

5 жыл бұрын

Preach!

@gullahgeechee2699

5 жыл бұрын

yup we all from same people✊🏾😎

@drellz9361

5 жыл бұрын

@@gullahgeechee2699 no we not

@SoupBone-bp1qk

5 жыл бұрын

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

She sounds Caribbean, even when she’s speaking in English I can hear that song song thing that Trinis have. It’s beautiful to hear.

I’m Jamaican, and I pronounce lot of my patio words the same as this lady. Her Gullah accent sound like Trinidadian accent. I love it!!!

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

6 жыл бұрын

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

@Mad-Arawak

6 жыл бұрын

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

@SaloneDutchess

6 жыл бұрын

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

@andreajl

6 жыл бұрын

SaloneDutchess to Jamaican patois too

@Mad-Arawak

6 жыл бұрын

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

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

3 жыл бұрын

Right!

@TheThunderSound

3 жыл бұрын

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

@TheThunderSound

3 жыл бұрын

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

@fal8872

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

F AL there’s nothing legit that proves that

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. 💕

I am a Liberian. And these are my people. There is no difference in the way we speak. I mean absolutely, no difference. This is a typical normal Liberian English. In fact, it is stated that my Gullah Gee Chee family came from Liberia. From the Kissi tribe.

I love my black american heritage!

@SmileyAdventures

3 жыл бұрын

Same! Being ADOS is something special ❤️☺️

@njgiant1

3 жыл бұрын

FBA all day ✌🏾✌🏾

@KishBish

3 жыл бұрын

🙌🏽🙌🏽 nothing like it 💖

@sleepycookieandanimefriend9605

2 жыл бұрын

Me too

@bwanahaguziki307

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

@esther265

7 жыл бұрын

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

7 жыл бұрын

She speaking gullah which is creole

@aliL111

6 жыл бұрын

Wooorrddd

@NegSteLucie

6 жыл бұрын

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

@evelynapplewhite7340

6 жыл бұрын

Truly.

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

OMG! My mom was born & raised in Charleston, but, she never told me about the Gullah language. Listening to this awesome woman speak of her history, I now understand the origin of some of the words my mom would say. I remember my mom telling me about dreaming of fish meant pregnancy, I remember her referring to some white people as "Buckars" and she would always refer to women as "omen". I never knew! I'm shocked! She also loved pig feet & tails. My mom passed away in 2001.❤

@happilyunorthodox6071

10 ай бұрын

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Beautiful. Your mom lives through you.

@MedjayCommander

7 ай бұрын

She is forever with you; as you will be forever with your children, as @happilyunorthox6071 says; Your mom she lives through you.💕

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

@amplyfesociety2570

5 жыл бұрын

@Phil Johnson, well stated.

@goddesswarrior760

5 жыл бұрын

@@derrickberry5453 Indians come from India.

@derrickberry5453

5 жыл бұрын

@@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

5 жыл бұрын

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

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

@sharifabuttafly8321

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

@@DJAjamu not my people but okay if yours did

@sharifabuttafly8321

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

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!

As a West Indian I feel a connection to the Gullah People. I enjoyed watching Ms. White speak about her culture.

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

@corneliadavis2990

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely not. Bake macaroni❤

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

@epixdevo3180

6 жыл бұрын

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

@livelifebehappy369

6 жыл бұрын

So am I!

@rickmanigault6447

6 жыл бұрын

My families from Jackson and sheapard st

@thegigadykid1

6 жыл бұрын

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

@kayelingore9547

5 жыл бұрын

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

"We better wake Jesus up before we drown outchea!" 😂 I absolutely loved the reading of the bible passage!

@KJ-jq2be

3 жыл бұрын

Best Part!!!

She is one of our ancestor treasures, so much knowledge to share . Rich and full of self love , her language reminds me of country language as well with the twang as they call it, yes rice was a big part of plantation life , in school they only taught of Cotton.

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

@MsLeslee18

5 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

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! 💓💞

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) ❤

I was born in Chicago, but was raised in Beaufort, SC from infancy to about 4yo. When I came back to Chicago everybody would talk about my accent. I don’t ever recall getting any speech therapy, but I definitely started changing how I spoke as I got older because I hated being called country. My little sister sounds just like her(she remained there with her family) I recently told her she sounds like she’s from Louisiana. I never knew of Gullah culture.

I could listen to her all day.

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

@blessed933

2 жыл бұрын

That's what I hear too!

@MsNubiandiva

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I was thinking the same thing.

@youkendehunique6317

2 жыл бұрын

Yes between Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 or Liberia 🇱🇷

@khaleesistormborn879

Жыл бұрын

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

@kinglylifewithdanita107

Жыл бұрын

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

I just love how she sounds Caribbean we are certainly one its beautiful to see ppl preserving their history.

My late grandfather was from Beaufort, and hearing him speak mesmerized me as a kid. He could cooookkk!! Boooy, I tell ya, this video reminds me of him 😔 miss him terribly still, over 20 years later.

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

@Kincaid2576

3 жыл бұрын

🇱🇷

@vaimende

2 жыл бұрын

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

@BlackandIndi

11 ай бұрын

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

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

@ronica57

3 жыл бұрын

@@allthingsloveone4584 - Hello - nyla7@live.com

@mionty

3 жыл бұрын

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

@shaniquecunningham4477

2 жыл бұрын

Yup indeed we are!!!

I’m from South Carolina. I always ask my mom to speak Gullah to me whenever I’m visiting her there. My mom fascinates me with her accent. I love it so much and she’s so good at it.❤

On my Mom's side I come from rice eaters. We ate rice at every meal. Breakfast was rice with blueberries or bananas and some milk and sugar. Every meal had rice except if we ate spaghetti. Succotash was my favorite dish as well as gumbo. My Mom's oldest brother was knicknamed Uncle Rice. One of my earliest memories is of my Mom visiting this grandma aged lady who's speach I couldn't understand. Mom would speak regular and the lady spoke in a musical way.

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

8 жыл бұрын

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

@melissaduprey4467

8 жыл бұрын

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

@livelovelight1021

8 жыл бұрын

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

@melissaduprey4467

8 жыл бұрын

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

@melissaduprey4467

8 жыл бұрын

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

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

@ememe1412

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

Right

@paigequeenb8257

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad my dad told me about our roots

I'm a Carolina Coastal Native, and I love to hear this Gullah Geechee. My father taught me about it when I was a kid.

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

@traceycarr-camper931

3 жыл бұрын

Shamika Charlton yes. Proud of the low country SC.

@beverlywilson7342

3 жыл бұрын

Can you reproduce the language?

@shamika5300

Жыл бұрын

@@beverlywilson7342 boi yuh fool up innit

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.

She’s simply speaking English with a slight dialect variance. I’m from the UK and understood every word.

I'm a native New Orleanian and the Gullah accent is sooooo similar to ours. It's like music tripping from her lips.

@vikeyshamurray7553

8 ай бұрын

It's the same culture

@Gullahbae-xm6ms

5 ай бұрын

No it’s not. Gullahs and NOLA has different histories and cultures.

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

@paddyret7968

4 жыл бұрын

What about white people?

@alexandergangaware429

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed@

Love this! Shows how interconnected we all are as Black diasporans. All of our speech is so similar. Beautiful learning about Gullah/Geechee culture and History.

I love it here in SC , I have learned so much about this beautiful Gullah culture. Such beautiful, kind , creative and spiritual folks. There respect and care for the earth is deep. Beautiful people.

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

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

6 жыл бұрын

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

@gregglass4796

5 жыл бұрын

Sirinwara we

@melanatedwoman3760

5 жыл бұрын

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

@FireRupee

5 жыл бұрын

@@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.

I’m learning more and more about my culture and it’s beautiful how much we have created with little to nothing. Black Americans have a lot to be proud of/

My grandma stays in Pineland South Carolina and she sounds just like this. I live in Florida now but I almost want to cry cuz I miss my grandma so much listening to her!

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

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.

I remember you couldn't go into a curb store without seeing a jar of pickled eggs and a jar of pickled pigs feet.

I’m Jamaican and this makes me want to cry she speaks just like us . They lie to us about our history. I really want to cry right now. I’ve always told my friends that black Americans and Jamaicans are the same ppl

@Gullahbae-xm6ms

Жыл бұрын

Gullah culture is unique. Not all AAs share this culture.

@bigpynk

Жыл бұрын

Only some are Gullah. I'm a creole as well but from Louisiana. We don't speak like this, I speak French as do many, but not all. Gullah's are close to Caribbean's and west-africans in terms of culture. Louisiana Creole's are closer in culture to France and the French Caribbean/Africa.

@MickeyAndMore

Жыл бұрын

Not just the French Caribbean, the English Caribbean as well as they are similar to one another. A little research will help.

@bigpynk

Жыл бұрын

@@MickeyAndMore I didn't say there were no similarities because there are. However in terms of religion, language, etc. LAC culture is more similar to Haiti, Saint Barthélemy, Reunion, Martinique, Mauritius, Seychelles, etc. OP is Jamaican. In this conversation, Jamaican culture is more similar to the Gullah's. I've done more than enough research. Thank you.

@chinaarlene7035

11 ай бұрын

Gullahs are AA, they were just able to preserve more of their original culture due to their kind masters.

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

7 жыл бұрын

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

@stritly

6 жыл бұрын

She said yaad...not yeed.

@NegSteLucie

6 жыл бұрын

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

@valeriesmith8335

5 жыл бұрын

She sure does sound like a Bahamian aye

@marciabryce1379

5 жыл бұрын

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

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

4 жыл бұрын

I am from Trinidad and I understand her completely 😉

@Reason_77

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@kemlaurin

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@mooreryo

4 жыл бұрын

shes Black American, not Carribbean

Wow this is just amazing..❤ as a Liberian I couldn't stop smiling eventhough she sounded like my neighbour from Sierra leone 😊❤

@eny68

Жыл бұрын

I'm from the UK and too found this fascinating - so much of my rural heritage reflected in what she told us - but the light in her that shines at about 0:48 when she says "Okra soup" and reconnects to her heritage was wonderful!

Love the way she pronounces "microwave" - hints of Caribbean. It is so important to keep up old traditions and keeping the past alive by teaching newer generations about it. We must never forget from whence we came - it should and will always be with us.