Hearing these phrases instantly make me feel like a warm hug. I can literally hear my Grandma singing on a Sunday morning or my Papa’s tobacco. Nothing but love!
I first saw this gentleman on Tic Toc. It's fascinating to learn about his culture. A wake up call for myself. Appreciate the knowledge. Be proud & educate on. Thank you, young gentleman. Have a blessed life.❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊
You are such a dynamic teacher. Dang that's such a good way to teach cuz even though it's limited time, your attitude and way about you makes absorbing the knowledge so much easier
Thank you for sharing this beautiful language and showing the richness of black language in the US. The comments from black folks on your videos are heartwarming. You bring such joy and pride. 💗💗💗
Linguistics was the only class I got a 100% on in college because I loved it so much! I find your explanations fascinating. Thank you for so much for sharing your knowledge!
Descendant of John's Island. Visited Dad's grave yesterday for the 1st time in over 2 decades. My Boston academic mothers are in support of me pursuing a doctoral thesis pertaining to some aspect of the Gullah/Geechee nation. I'm starting with a museum visit to learn about the 1st nation (Native Americans) and then work my way from there.
I used to watch a children’s tv program called Gullah Gullah island. It was such an awesome show. Is this show from your island. I love your videos. Knowledge is power, so thank you. 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
Thank you Dr. I was thinking about asking you if you could teach me Gullah. But I been speaking my whole life. With my history stolen from me by the palm color folk, I didn't know there was a name for it. So thank you again Doctor.
So interesting! I like listening to the audio by itself to really hear the inflections, diction, and underlying tones. Your Gullah lessons reminded me that when in college, I used to hang out with students from Jamaica, Haiti, and Barbados, and how familiar it all now sounded to me. 😊
Learning about the Gullah people of Hilton Head Island and the surrounding area is a wonderful experience. Thank you for educating people about your unique culture. Also... love Chef David & his incredible food.
I love your positive attitude keep waking our people up even if they can’t stand to hear it they will keep coming back in return they really are learning even if they are arguing with you they heard something that triggered the soul
I swear you make Gallah feel so intuitive that I think I could communicate with gallah speakers after just a month around them. English is my 2nd Language
This is so interesting! I'm a white person from a majority-white country, from a big capital city, too, so I never really heard dialects that were so different from the language(s) they came from (and obviously I never heard a creole spoken before), everyone always talked very similarly. I just love how you can see exactly what words were used and how they were changed to make a unique, beautiful-sounding language Edit: I messed up and equated Gullah to a dialect, just looked it up and saw how wrong I was, it's very much its own language!!!
What's so weird, I grew up in Sumter, SC which is about 2 hours from Charleston and that's how we talk. I had no idea it was Gullah/geechee until I became an adult. 🤔 I swear you learn something new everyday. And to see him "teach" it is so weird to me. #weoutchea ✌🏿
Is Paul Lawrence Dunbar's poetry written in Gullah? I remember my mother reading me some of his poetry which sounded very much like the Gullah you speak.
Funny, older people in Bayern (in an area in Germany) say "Gruss Gott" (Greet God) or "Gruss dich Gott" (Greet your God) meaning something along the lines of "God bless you".. :)
G'day mate from Australia I find your videos intelligent and informative. Excuse my ignorance but could you tell me where the Gullah language comes from please. Have an awesome day. Travis.
I think you shouldn't tell some things. It doesn't make sense that this is a class. Just maybe this is just for us. My daddy gone a long time now. He was a deacon and played the washboard. I've been hurt to my core and know he'd keep me safe.Perhaps it's our secrets we could tell between one another brother. Praise the Lord anyhow. He knows best.
"Alright then/aight there" is like the black aloha. I grew up speaking aave and noticed west Indians saying it too when I paid attention. Its meaning is completely based on context. Aight then is hello, goodbye, i like that, congratulations, nevermind, and more. I love us.
In the rural country areas, howdy...how are you doing. Whappen... what's happening....mi gaan, goodbye... A real language indeed....not broken English... LoL 😆
That’s how my Mom talked. So now, when I speak to people that is the language I use, depending on the person. Sometimes it just comes out out of nowhere 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Hearing these phrases instantly make me feel like a warm hug. I can literally hear my Grandma singing on a Sunday morning or my Papa’s tobacco. Nothing but love!
Yessss....a warm hug indeed! I love it.
Yesssah!!!
This reminds me of the Jamaican Patwah I grew up hearing in my family.🇯🇲
Same here
We say “I ain’t gon hold you” a lot in Detroit 😂🤎
so are you gullah?
We say "Imma letcha go now" :-)
We definitely do 💯💯
We just say, Aight then, and follow with a head nod
😂facts we do be saying that
Shocked I actually understood what you are saying. The roots are strong.
❤I love our vernacular...so powerful
I hear my mother & my fathers creoles in this. 🇬🇾🇯🇲 love from Pembroke Pines FL. Feathers up
Pembroke Pines!!🎉
You use your hands a lot while speaking. Love that
Reminds me of spending time with my Grandfather from Barbados 🇧🇧
I can hear my Dad’s voice in everything you say! ❤❤❤Thank you…
A lot of the stuff you shared my dad use to say...thank you🌹🌷🌺🙏🏾😊
I first saw this gentleman on Tic Toc. It's fascinating to learn about his culture. A wake up call for myself. Appreciate the knowledge. Be proud & educate on. Thank you, young gentleman. Have a blessed life.❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊
Love it. I remember my fore parents speaking like this in my neighborhood and family.
You are such a dynamic teacher. Dang that's such a good way to teach cuz even though it's limited time, your attitude and way about you makes absorbing the knowledge so much easier
Never realized how much this language is based on tone and familiarity
Sounds like my family from 🇹🇹
❤ So VERY INTERESTING! Thank you nephew!❤
Just found out this week that my great grandmother was geechee.. I never knew and proud to learn my heritage and language
Thank you for sharing this beautiful language and showing the richness of black language in the US. The comments from black folks on your videos are heartwarming. You bring such joy and pride. 💗💗💗
I just met a man from SC, and I recognized his dialect, by listening to you. I showed him your video and him face lit up with happiness..
Beautiful language person and ways of knowing I only know of him through the Karen Hunter show
I am back living in Ms and when I see my elders. We have exchange a couple of those greetings. ❤ "all right now" is my favorite.
Sounds so much like Jamaican Patios. Love this!
Our language being taught to the masses makes me happy 😊
Linguistics was the only class I got a 100% on in college because I loved it so much! I find your explanations fascinating. Thank you for so much for sharing your knowledge!
BEST teacher ever!!!!!!
The best teacher is one that makes you want to learn more.
It is refreshing to see this gifted teacher teaching language instead of schooling bigots and trolls. m'Cheaux is joy and spreads joy.
Descendant of John's Island. Visited Dad's grave yesterday for the 1st time in over 2 decades. My Boston academic mothers are in support of me pursuing a doctoral thesis pertaining to some aspect of the Gullah/Geechee nation. I'm starting with a museum visit to learn about the 1st nation (Native Americans) and then work my way from there.
While it's different, this reminds me of how my Creole friends speak, makes me feel warm and snuggly. 🥰
All familiar feeling.❤
Love it and you are awesome 👍😎
I used to watch a children’s tv program called Gullah Gullah island. It was such an awesome show. Is this show from your island. I love your videos. Knowledge is power, so thank you. 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
This just warms my heart.❤❤❤I can hear my Daddy sayin, I ain gon hole ya! He passed on years ago. 💕💕💕💕❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🤗🤗🤗
In Eastern Arkansas, it’s “Hi you?” (How are you doing).
🇦🇬 The similarities never cease to amaze me. Lol I got deja vu
Not Gullah/Geechee, but been on Charleston for some years. I love you're teaching about this.
Thank you Dr. I was thinking about asking you if you could teach me Gullah. But I been speaking my whole life. With my history stolen from me by the palm color folk, I didn't know there was a name for it. So thank you again Doctor.
I love how your channel has a great variety of content! love this!
Sunn, you are like the Levar Burton of this day. I LOVE Mr. Burton! 😁
You sound like my grandparents and all of my church elders. York County SC✊🏿
So interesting! I like listening to the audio by itself to really hear the inflections, diction, and underlying tones. Your Gullah lessons reminded me that when in college, I used to hang out with students from Jamaica, Haiti, and Barbados, and how familiar it all now sounded to me. 😊
Thank you for this. It is a great way to preserve the traditions of our people. I can understand some but I would love to learn more.
Learning about the Gullah people of Hilton Head Island and the surrounding area is a wonderful experience. Thank you for educating people about your unique culture.
Also... love Chef David & his incredible food.
Another great linguistics lesson. Thank you, Sunn
I like the transparency that comes with the greeting corresponding with the dynamic.
Una? We use “una” for “you” in Nigerian Pidgin (English). “How una dey?” is “how are you”. Amazing.
I love your positive attitude keep waking our people up even if they can’t stand to hear it they will keep coming back in return they really are learning even if they are arguing with you they heard something that triggered the soul
Thank you, I enjoyed this! Also I want to tell you again your hair is beautiful 😄
I swear you make Gallah feel so intuitive that I think I could communicate with gallah speakers after just a month around them.
English is my 2nd Language
It's amazing how lyrical and song like the language is.
Seeing the words typed out is so cool!
Saying these phrases since a child. Gullah!
Very 😎❤❤. That puts a 😃 on face and Love in my ❤. Hits the Spirit😊 Like a Big Pot of Gumbo😂
Gullah people are dope had the privilege of having some friends that migrated to Nc.
Emotive language; love it.
Loving learning from you. And how much n of your speaking I can recall from my parents uncles and aunties.
They were all also from the South.
This is so interesting! I'm a white person from a majority-white country, from a big capital city, too, so I never really heard dialects that were so different from the language(s) they came from (and obviously I never heard a creole spoken before), everyone always talked very similarly. I just love how you can see exactly what words were used and how they were changed to make a unique, beautiful-sounding language
Edit: I messed up and equated Gullah to a dialect, just looked it up and saw how wrong I was, it's very much its own language!!!
Some of it sounds similar to Jamaican Patois 🇯🇲. Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼
Some of these I say now. Lol! I'm quick to say "watch out there now."
Wow! I’ve heard all of this or some version down in South Carolina ! ❤😂
It's almost Thanksgiving... I'm about to hear praze da lawd more times than I should hear in lifetime all in a 2 day period. Smh
My grandmama and friends use to talk like that.❤🎉
My goodness, i see JAMAICAN PATOIS all up in that "language".
This is Sooo New Orleans! I speak this fluently. 😊
What's so weird, I grew up in Sumter, SC which is about 2 hours from Charleston and that's how we talk. I had no idea it was Gullah/geechee until I became an adult. 🤔 I swear you learn something new everyday. And to see him "teach" it is so weird to me. #weoutchea ✌🏿
Beautiful braid out of your beautiful locs😍
Always wondered that. Thank you ❤❤
Thank You King 💖💖💖💖💖💖😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Priceless!!
Is Paul Lawrence Dunbar's poetry written in Gullah? I remember my mother reading me some of his poetry which sounded very much like the Gullah you speak.
I love this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is so cool.
Beautiful language.
LOVE YOUR MIND!
Love this!!!
" gal how you comin" " I da do very well by the hep ah da lawd'
LOVE IT ‼️
Thank you.
Funny, older people in Bayern (in an area in Germany) say "Gruss Gott" (Greet God) or "Gruss dich Gott" (Greet your God) meaning something along the lines of "God bless you"..
:)
G'day mate from Australia I find your videos intelligent and informative. Excuse my ignorance but could you tell me where the Gullah language comes from please. Have an awesome day. Travis.
these vids are my fav :O
I think you shouldn't tell some things. It doesn't make sense that this is a class. Just maybe this is just for us. My daddy gone a long time now. He was a deacon and played the washboard. I've been hurt to my core and know he'd keep me safe.Perhaps it's our secrets we could tell between one another brother. Praise the Lord anyhow. He knows best.
"Alright then/aight there" is like the black aloha. I grew up speaking aave and noticed west Indians saying it too when I paid attention. Its meaning is completely based on context. Aight then is hello, goodbye, i like that, congratulations, nevermind, and more. I love us.
🤯🤯🤯🤯
Wow...
I use so many of these phrases, just thinking they were "slang".
But an entire language..?
Thanks Brother, love the familiarity in the words
Waaaa gwaaan! 🇯🇲❤
I was just a-smilin’!😁
🤗🤗🤗 home!
Yoooo that is exactly how Savannah ppl speak!!
thanks…. ❤🎉
In the Jamaican Patois (Patwah) dialect, one of our greeting and goodbye phases goes like this: waaw gawn (hello) awwrite, tek care (good bye) 🇯🇲
In the rural country areas, howdy...how are you doing. Whappen... what's happening....mi gaan, goodbye... A real language indeed....not broken English... LoL 😆
This is an interesting video. I'm gonna start practicing these.
Sounds like Bajan Jamaican and Trini. All mixed up🎉🎉😂
That’s how my Mom talked. So now, when I speak to people that is the language I use, depending on the person. Sometimes it just comes out out of nowhere 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Likkle more - see you soon 🇯🇲
Aye aye😊
Sounds like Jamaican patois 😊❤🇯🇲
Whaaaaatzzzz up....hellllerrrrrrr....douces...n c ya when i c ya...lol...
So... I BEEN GULLAH GEECHIE THIS WHOLE TIME??!?!?!? THIS HOW MY MAMA PEOPLES ALLLLLLLLWAYS TALKED... Hmmm.
What about the universal Marvin Gaye (WHATS GOING ON) i use it all the time. Respect
Is this where "finna do" comes from???