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Gullah Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Gullah is built on a mixture of English, and West, Central, and East African languages. Spoken in the South Carolina Low Country, Sea Islands, and in coastal areas stretching from Georgia to Florida, Gullah bears a striking resemblance in tone and cadence to the range of patois dialects spoken throughout the English-speaking Caribbean.

Sunn M'Cheaux is a professor of Gullah, as well as Geechee (a derivative of Gullah), and Jamaican patois at Harvard University's African Languages Program.

Sunn M'Cheaux's extended family continues to live on the family homestead near the city of Charleston, SC which they have owned since shortly after Emancipation. They continue to struggle with hostile forces as suburban developments push ever closer and seek to encroach on their ancestral lands.