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Gullah

creole language spoken by the Gullah people in US
Class type of: Eastern Caribbean Creole Q33395

Facts

7 properties
Instance of
creole, modern language, natural language[4][5]
Country
United States[3]
Subclass of
Eastern Caribbean Creole
Has part(s)
Afro-Seminole Creole[6]
Indigenous to
Gullah, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, New York, South Carolina[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
+550[7]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject African diaspora[15]
🏷️ Also known as
en Gullah language en Sea Island Creole English en Geechee en gul en Gullah ar كولا el γλώσσα Γκούλα es gulá es Gullah es idioma gulá fr Geechee it lingua gullah ja ガラ語 ko 걸라어 pt Língua gullah ru галла ru гулла vi tiếng Geechee vi tiếng Gullah vi tiếng lai Đảo Biển
🔖 Identifiers · 17
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85057897
BLL-Ontology concept ID
bll-133104079
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Gullah-language
Endangeredlanguages.com ID
10943
Ethnologue.com language code
gul
Exact match
publications.europa.eu, apics-online.info
Freebase ID
/m/019d6x
Glottolog code
gull1241
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
gullah
IETF language tag
gul
ISO 639-3 code
gul
IdRef ID
050210467
Show all 17 identifiers +5
J9U entity ID
987007545837205171
Linguasphere code
52-ABB-aa
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
1285408
Topic's main category
Category:Gullah language
Yale LUX ID
concept/e962f3d0-ad17-4af1-868d-a5bf98bc2042

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🔗 Connections
Indigenous to 7
Florida, New York, Georgia, Michigan, South Carolina, North Carolina, Gullah
← Language used 7
United States, Florida, New York, Georgia, Michigan, South Carolina, North Carolina
Instance of 3
creole, natural language, modern language
← Languages spoken, written or signed 2
Clarence Thomas, Robert Smalls
Country 1
United States
Has part(s) 1
Afro-Seminole Creole
Subtypes 1
Afro-Seminole Creole
Topic's main category 1
Category:Gullah language
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Gullah language
← Native language 1
Clarence Thomas
← Original language of film or TV show 1
Daughters of the Dust
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Summary

Gullah is a creole[1]. Gullah is a type of Eastern Caribbean Creole[2].

Related Entities

Clarence Thomas Florida Georgia Michigan New York North Carolina South Carolina United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5d ago · Mahir256 · 2026-11-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    BLL-Ontology concept ID → bll-133104079
    "Created claim: BLL-Ontology concept ID: bll-133104079, batch #294332"
  2. 5d ago · Mahir256 · 2026-11-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Exact match → http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/GU, https://apics-online.info/contributions/13
    "Removed claim: Exact match: http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133104079, batch #294332"
  3. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → Afro-Seminole Creole
    Country → United States
    Indigenous to → Gullah, Florida, Georgia +1
    Number of speakers, writers, or signers → 550
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007545837205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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