Editing Gullah language (section)

{{Short description|Creole language of southern US}}
{{Use mdy dates|date = April 2019}}
{{Use American English|date = April 2019}}
{{more footnotes needed|date=October 2011}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Gullah
| altname          = Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English
| states           = [[United States]]
| region           = [[South Carolina]] [[Lowcountry]]; coastal [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], including the [[Sea Islands]]
| speakers         = 300 fluent
| date             = 2021
| ref              = <ref name="auto">{{cite web |title=Gullah language speakers and population |author1=Wolfram, 2021 |url=http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/10943 |access-date=July 27, 2021 |archive-date=August 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818040401/http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/10943 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| familycolor      = Creole
| fam1             = [[English-based creole languages|English Creole]]
| fam2             = Atlantic
| fam3             = Eastern
| fam4             = Northern ([[Bahamian Creole|Bahamian]]–Gullah)
| dia1             = [[Afro-Seminole Creole]]
| iso3             = gul
| iso3comment      = Sea&nbsp;Island&nbsp;Creole&nbsp;English
| lc1              = afs
| ld1              = Afro-Seminole Creole
| glotto           = gull1241
| glottoname       = Sea&nbsp;Island&nbsp;Creole&nbsp;English
| lingua           = 52-ABB-aa
| ethnicity        = 200,000 (Wolfram, 2021)<ref name="auto"/>
| speakers2        = 5,000 semi-fluent<ref name="auto"/>
}}
[[File:WIKITONGUES- Caroline speaking Gullah and English.webm|thumb|A woman speaking Gullah and English]]

'''Gullah''' (also called '''Gullah-English''',<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gullah-English, linguistics of African-American languages 101|url=http://udel.edu/~dlarsen/ling101/slides/AAE.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=July 30, 2021|archive-date=March 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322033644/http://udel.edu/~dlarsen/ling101/slides/AAE.pdf}}</ref> '''Sea Island Creole English''',<ref>{{Cite web|title=Glottolog 4.4 - Sea Island Creole English|url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/gull1241|access-date=2021-07-30|website=glottolog.org|archive-date=November 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127022611/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/gull1241|url-status=live}}</ref> and '''Geechee'''<ref>{{Citation|title=Geechee|url=https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Geechee|work=The Free Dictionary|access-date=2021-07-30|archive-date=July 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210730134805/https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Geechee|url-status=live}}</ref>) is a [[creole language]] spoken by the [[Gullah]] people (also called "Geechees" within the community), an [[African-American|African American]] population living in coastal regions of [[South Carolina Low Country|South Carolina]] and [[Golden Isles of Georgia|Georgia]] (including urban [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]] and [[Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]]) as well as extreme northeastern [[Florida]] and the extreme southeast of [[North Carolina]].<ref>[http://www.whatsonwilmington.com/event.php?id=32728]{{dead link|date=July 2020}}</ref><ref name="glot">{{cite web|year=2020|title=Sea Island Creole English|url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/gull1241|work=[[Glottolog]] 4.3|editor-last1=Hammarström|editor-first1=Harald|editor-last2=Forke|editor-first2=Robert|editor-last3=Haspelmath|editor-first3=Martin|editor-last4=Bank|editor-first4=Sebastian|access-date=December 1, 2020|archive-date=November 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127022611/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/gull1241|url-status=live}}</ref>