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Nigerian and African Muslim personal names among the Gullah of Georgia and South Carolina

Gullah: The fascinating African-inflected black American English dialect

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African Words in the American English Gullah Dialect

Last week, I identified some notable African onomastic (onomastics is the science of personal names) influences in Gullah personal names. This week, I highlight a…



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