😂 I'm a black American (from Alabama) and understood every word as well. We have our version too. Is is it maybe because my best friend is Jamaican? We talk this way every day...or do black folk just have an ear for it?
@@mpetersonification I mean all of our variations of dialects, accents, and languages are variations of similar origins so we kinda developed similar languages and narrowed words and shared phrases, etc...
@@mpetersonification NO! You understand because of migration patterns! The Geechee/Gullah were taken into Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana when the land was taken from the Native Americans in the case of what is now Alabama and part of Mississippi and then the Louisiana Purchase opened that territory. When they arrive there, they did like we always do, they adapted. LA has its own language mixed with the French terms and accents and so does AL. All comes from the same root.
OMG! Too funny and so true. My grandparents left SC in the 1930's for NYC. My mother and her sisters speak "proper" as did my grandmother or so I thought. I remember my grandma's sister came up to visit and when I heard my grandmother speak with her I almost fell out our my chair. Code switching in effect! She started to speak to me in Gullah, something she never did with her own churn and I in turn passed it to my girls. Gullah Geechee Nation still going strong in Brooklyn.
Woooooow! It's really a small world. My family left Georgetown and moved to Brooklyn, NY as well. The Brooklyn bureau census log dates their move to NYC as the early 1930s as well. My immediate fam eventually moved to CT but we still have family all over NY and SC. As I child I remember visiting Brooklyn and the Bronks for my grandfather's SC family and Long Island for my grandmother's JA family. Ironically my grandfather's Georgetown family never code switched...at least not in front of us kids.....but my Jamaican grandmother and maternal Aiken, SC grandfather did it all the time. The young lady in the video sounds to my ear so much like my maternal grandfather with a touch of Caribbean islander with particular attention to Haiti and JA. We absolutely loved when family came to visit so we could listen to the code switch. 😉😄
My mother and her sisters speak properly, not speak proper. A GEECHEE descendant is correcting Standard English speakers. LOL I love the Geechee dialect!!!❤❤❤
@@sandraatkins2539I speak both Gullah and English properly. The "proper" was put in quotations because it was a quote. So "proper" was correct in the context that it was used.
The Gullah-Geechee culture is so rich and beautiful. The Gullah-Geechee people are all over the globe, but the culture is most prominent from the coastal regions of Jacksonville, NC to Jacksonville, FL and then 50 miles inward. Every aspect of the Gullah Geechee culture makes me smile. - the people, places, faith, food, customs, language, communities, and overall pride of heritage makes me proud to be a part of the Gullah Geechee nation!
True Geechee/Gullahs are off the island coasts of Charleston SC down the Georgia coasts and Near Northern coastal Jacksonville Florida,I really never heard of true Geechee/Gullahs off the southern North Carolina coasts for me true Gullah-Geechee starts in South Carolina down down coastal Northern Florida.
@@reliablemaid We may have crossed paths! Who knows!? I worked in some hotels around town but people either know me as the “Mayor’s Grandson” or “The Young Man Who Worked At Paninis or Ruby Tuesday” 🤣🤣
Gal I ga tell you wa fa take. Gon down younder an get you some life everlasting an boil dat an drink em like tea. I ga tell ya now, yo gon be bus up all night but when day clean u ga feel fine. I da tell u now.
Very very similar! Just goes to show black language is unique and developed similarly even in isolated populations. I find that AAVE, Caribbean Pidgin/Patois, and African English Pidgin are so similar that I can understand them all!
Very very similar! Just goes to show black language is unique and developed similarly even in isolated populations. I find that AAVE, Caribbean Pidgin/Patois, and African English Pidgin are so similar that I can understand them all!
It's broken english primarily. The slaves of course wern't allowed to read so as they would listen to their master's conversate they would pick up certain words/phrases but pronounce them incorrectly or partially being that english wasn't there native language. My family's Gullah/Geechee here in South Carolina! How bout dem chern (kids) akin(acting) up ova(over) day(there)!! 😜😅
@@justmy2cents_ you underestimate the strong influence of irish accent all over the caribbean. Other comments here underestimate the significant cross pollination between the caribbean and the southern U.S..
My father is from Jamaica and My Mother is from Georgia with Gullah Geeche ancestry and I grew up in NY....It's crazy that those two nationalities sound so much alike....
Years ago, on a date with future hubby, we went to see "Daughters 9f the Dust " movie. There were sub-titles... I wondered out loud "why?". He replied " you're the only one in this movie that understands them". Proud of my geechee roots 😇
I da buss gone n see dang move now, cause eby bodi sey dat e movie gud. I gladdi fa see hunnuh pwoud ob e heritage! Disyah shud be haw all we kinfolk ak. 🥰
I do this every day😂 and I understood every word she said, I am Bahamian, my mother and maternal grandparents are from Turks & Caicos, I grew up hearing this beautiful language spoken around me my entire life. I'm so proud of my heritage, such a mixture of influences but an obvious shared ancestry with Black Americans in South Carolina.
Yes! Same when I travel to the Caribbean. This is why we need to stop the infighting. We are all kin. Blacks in the Caribbean got off the boats transporting us from Africa one stop before Charleston so to speak.
When my West Indian husband first met my father, he fell in love with him, thinking he was from the Islands. I told him no my parents are from SC. it took a lot of convincing for him to finally believe me.
I'm not Gullah-geechee or west indian, but I can understand it just fine. It reminds me a bit of how my grandmother used to talk. Not the same, but familiar and cozy.
I’m a white Charleston native and I understood every bit of your Gullah-Geechee accent! I have coworkers who speak GG and I will always love it-our coworkers not from here have a hard time at first, lol, but eventually get it. Thank you for keeping this lovely culture alive! ❤
Yes! I love to hear this. I love traveling throughout the continent. I've only been to Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal and Kenya but G'd willing, I'll visit again soon.
I work in an office that occasionally receives calls from NYC. I was on the phone with someone who was thoroughly enraged at something her school had done (Completely valid) every other sentence was "I know you're not responsible for this" and I kept assuring her that nah she was right to be mad about it. I hear a door open in the background of her call, and the RAPID FIRE CODE SWITCHING between her family and me on the phone was amazing to listen to.
@@DrJessicaBerry I'm honored to be here, thank you. I'm a Philly-bred continental sister (from Ghana) who speaks Pidgin, Ebonics, Krio and Patois. I yearn to learn Gullah Geechee. I'm in awe of what our ancestors both preserved and created. Such a a bountiful inheritance. I trust they're very proud of you. 🙌🏿❤
@@loveheals6184 There is a professor at Harvard who teaches Gullah. Full on 100% Gullah. We hear the vestiges of it today but it is still Gullah. I can't think of his name but he's easy enough to find.
@@GeeBee212 yes, fam, you're referring to Sunn m'Cheaux. When I learned he was about to start teaching, I was overjoyed. I actually made a public announcement in the group of poets, singers & other creatives that I was a part of. I wish you exponential reciprocity of the kindness you've shown by directing me to the resource you knew of. May our people regardless of where they are from always receive you as cherished family.
@@loveheals6184 Yes! That's him! I absolutely love Ghana! I've traveled there many times. Cape Coast to Elmina and then back to Accra. I love Kumasi and learned so much up in the North, Volta and Akosombo dam area. Can't wait to get back. Love eating Kelewele from the street vendors. To my Gullah brethren, you will feel at home in Ghana. Gullah Girl in Ghana. What a natural progression. Peace and Blessings.
Lmbooo! Yo I’m sending this to my friends . They don’t understand my life . Not only do I code switch from Trini accent to American. I go from Nicki to Becky real quick too 😂😂😂.
That is not code switching. It is speaking another language. The entire concept of code switching is racist and harmful but saying so makes me problematic.
@@tonymarselle8812 Hello. Do some actual research into what code-switching is. No one is out here calling you problematic. Please stay away from the groups online who feel like everyone is attacking them. These groups pose themselves as being educational and looking out for people, but they are actually causing fear and negative thoughts. These groups are literally causing some people to go out and harm other people because of the fear that they feel. These groups are damaging your brain. And a sign of the damage that it's causing is your over-the-top negative reaction to a funny and harmless video about people's lived experiences. You're the only person on here who is having a negative reaction to this video. That's not a good sign. Try to have a more open mind and stop living in fear and having such negative thoughts. It's not healthy and all you're doing is spreading negativity which causes harm to other people.
Bahamian Creole actually originated from Gullah, as a result of the loyalists of coastal South Carolina and coastal Georgia planters resettling the Bahamas accompanied by their slaves, after the British lost the Revolutionary War.
Absolutely hilarious I can talk five minutes on the phone and it comes back just as natural when I'm talking to family soon as somebody calls it's like flip straight up perfect English. From Seneca South Carolina great great grandma from the Sea Islands
Oh man, I haven't heard that in years! Living in Colorado now these people don't know nothing about Geechee. I grew up in Coastal Georgia and as a kid spent a lot of time around Daufuskie and Little Daufuskie and all over the Low Country. I remember when I was around 6 getting in trouble in school because we were all speaking geechee in the back of the room. I thought I'd forgotten it all until I saw this video. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Born and raised in Tennessee and paternal side from SC, but I understood every word! I also have Gullah language New Testament I'm using to learn more of the language. You have a new subscriber!
Lived in the low country of SC for a number of years. On backroad trips ended up in some amazing places. Heard a fair amount of the Gullah geechee lingo. It was really cool to experience and hear. Followed most of what she said! The old ear still got it.
Way yo! Have me in tears you spot on. I used to be self conscious cause I can articulate so well den bruk it and mash it up so you dun know. You are a beautiful confirmation and reminder to keep it up!
It is linguistically West African dialect mixed with English. It sounds Bahamian and Jamaican because those creolized dialects are also West African mixed with English.
Sooo funny! Representing Beaufort, SC... That is where my people are from... Coffin Point baby!!! My Grandfadda use to call me "Yankee gal!" Daddy slips with the accent when he is angry but my Uncles and Auntie don't skip a beat.... 24/7. Lol!... Much love!
In a post from another Gullah Geechee creator last week they wrote the word "G'red!" I read it over and over again trying to figure it out until I remembered this video of yours. I think it is exactly what you say when you switch off the line from the bill collector and back to your family/friend. Bilingualism is fascinating, thank you for sharing!
Me all day! It's about the business everyone do not need to see the "real" you! As long as your heart is the same switch up the voice. This is so funny! Thank God for searching the heart and not the voice lol. Thanks for the laugh!
Thank you for the love! Crazy how we're taught to switch and not speak native tongue! My grandfather gets SOOOOOOOOO upset bout dat!! Nah let Dat die dey yah nah!
That's crazy...my grandparents fr there but I'm listening and reading how yall talk. That shit strooong in me and all my cuzn's still and we're 2nd generation in Connecticut. You wouldn't believe it a lot of the grandkids left here still got this accent..I do dis all day at work.
@@mssnicole2u I beleeve'em. I like tuh say Gullah Geechee ppl are fuh true wata ppl. Wi cuh be put any wey and we blend. However, git us round otha Gullah Geechee folk for a li-while dat ting come out tick! Din put us back wit ppl wah we een know accent gon! Ppl can hear a accent but cyan place'em.
Wonderfully real and funny. My beloved Grandmother was Gullah-Gechee. She was born in Georgia in 1914. I have subscribed to your channel. Remain Blessed and a Blessing.
She sounds Bahamian because the enslaved Africans were first taken to the West Indies to be "broken in" on the sugar cane plantations before being taken to the Carolina's to work on the rice plantations. Therefore, the West Africans from Sierra Leone first went to the Bahamas and then the Carolinas and that's why they sound like they do.
The code switch is real!😂 Shout-out to all my SC Gullah Geechee fam.
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Mine too❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏
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Yassssssssss! Sc in the building!
💕 Chucktown 💕
im Jamaican and Grenadian and i understood every word. distant cousins
Yeah mi like hear dem talk to cause mi understand it!☺️
😂 I'm a black American (from Alabama) and understood every word as well. We have our version too. Is is it maybe because my best friend is Jamaican? We talk this way every day...or do black folk just have an ear for it?
@@mpetersonification I mean all of our variations of dialects, accents, and languages are variations of similar origins so we kinda developed similar languages and narrowed words and shared phrases, etc...
@@martinsmith2258 agreed
@@mpetersonification NO! You understand because of migration patterns! The Geechee/Gullah were taken into Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana when the land was taken from the Native Americans in the case of what is now Alabama and part of Mississippi and then the Louisiana Purchase opened that territory. When they arrive there, they did like we always do, they adapted. LA has its own language mixed with the French terms and accents and so does AL. All comes from the same root.
She forgot the shiiiiid at the end.😂😂😂
or the shooon
Thats my mom rit thair 😄
Init?!
OMG! Too funny and so true. My grandparents left SC in the 1930's for NYC. My mother and her sisters speak "proper" as did my grandmother or so I thought. I remember my grandma's sister came up to visit and when I heard my grandmother speak with her I almost fell out our my chair. Code switching in effect! She started to speak to me in Gullah, something she never did with her own churn and I in turn passed it to my girls. Gullah Geechee Nation still going strong in Brooklyn.
Crown heights?
@@JonJon-du9ne Bed-Stuy!
Woooooow! It's really a small world. My family left Georgetown and moved to Brooklyn, NY as well. The Brooklyn bureau census log dates their move to NYC as the early 1930s as well. My immediate fam eventually moved to CT but we still have family all over NY and SC. As I child I remember visiting Brooklyn and the Bronks for my grandfather's SC family and Long Island for my grandmother's JA family. Ironically my grandfather's Georgetown family never code switched...at least not in front of us kids.....but my Jamaican grandmother and maternal Aiken, SC grandfather did it all the time. The young lady in the video sounds to my ear so much like my maternal grandfather with a touch of Caribbean islander with particular attention to Haiti and JA. We absolutely loved when family came to visit so we could listen to the code switch. 😉😄
My mother and her sisters speak properly, not speak proper. A GEECHEE descendant is correcting Standard English speakers. LOL I love the Geechee dialect!!!❤❤❤
@@sandraatkins2539I speak both Gullah and English properly. The "proper" was put in quotations because it was a quote. So "proper" was correct in the context that it was used.
The Gullah-Geechee culture is so rich and beautiful. The Gullah-Geechee people are all over the globe, but the culture is most prominent from the coastal regions of Jacksonville, NC to Jacksonville, FL and then 50 miles inward. Every aspect of the Gullah Geechee culture makes me smile. - the people, places, faith, food, customs, language, communities, and overall pride of heritage makes me proud to be a part of the Gullah Geechee nation!
Didn't know the area. Thanks 😊
Don’t forget us Geechee folks in SC! 😬💛
@@cameroncohens726 he said from NC to Jacksonville. He mean of course SC Georgia as well 😉
True Geechee/Gullahs are off the island coasts of Charleston SC down the Georgia coasts and Near Northern coastal Jacksonville Florida,I really never heard of true Geechee/Gullahs off the southern North Carolina coasts for me true Gullah-Geechee starts in South Carolina down down coastal Northern Florida.
From Georgia and its crazy that I never knew I been speaking Geechee dis whole time “I ah tell ya we binya too long na”🤝💯
Me too 912
Props from Sierra Leone the ancestral home of the Gullahs
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No it comes from central and some west african languages
@@shalbec3232 yes, Sierra Leone is a West African country.
I read online specifically mainly from the Mende ethnic group.
No there home is coastal SC, Georgia, Florida US. African and Gullah Geechie are totally different today and always have been! Look it up!
Oh yeah. She did that. As a native of the Charleston SC (Hollywood) area myself; I too find myself doing the same thing.
It's so easy to do! We just got it honest.
Beaufort, SC woop woop! I laughed so hard when she said "Greeeey, wheh Imma gettem from."
BEAUFORT (PORT ROYAL) IN THE HOUSE!!!
@@marcusrobinson3744 LOL. I worked at Bayview and went to TCL! Memories!
@@reliablemaid We may have crossed paths! Who knows!? I worked in some hotels around town but people either know me as the “Mayor’s Grandson” or “The Young Man Who Worked At Paninis or Ruby Tuesday” 🤣🤣
Lake City & Kingstree here, yessuh.
I have family in Gardens Corner and friends in Burton! LOL
🤣🤣🤣 lawd god, mi kin til me sick! 😂 belly a 'urt mi! And I'm a Jamaican, same so we do! 😅
Same ting fa tru!
Gal I ga tell you wa fa take. Gon down younder an get you some life everlasting an boil dat an drink em like tea. I ga tell ya now, yo gon be bus up all night but when day clean u ga feel fine. I da tell u now.
I was listening to some Bahamians do an accent challenge and it was quite similar to the way you guys speak.
Yeah I noticed it's apt similarity to Bahamian & Bajan accent
Very very similar! Just goes to show black language is unique and developed similarly even in isolated populations. I find that AAVE, Caribbean Pidgin/Patois, and African English Pidgin are so similar that I can understand them all!
Very very similar! Just goes to show black language is unique and developed similarly even in isolated populations. I find that AAVE, Caribbean Pidgin/Patois, and African English Pidgin are so similar that I can understand them all!
It's broken english primarily. The slaves of course wern't allowed to read so as they would listen to their master's conversate they would pick up certain words/phrases but pronounce them incorrectly or partially being that english wasn't there native language. My family's Gullah/Geechee here in South Carolina! How bout dem chern (kids) akin(acting) up ova(over) day(there)!! 😜😅
@@justmy2cents_ you underestimate the strong influence of irish accent all over the caribbean. Other comments here underestimate the significant cross pollination between the caribbean and the southern U.S..
If this ain't me at work here in the city...Beaufort Geechee gal
BEAUFORT (PORT ROYAL) ALL DAY!!
My father is from Jamaica and My Mother is from Georgia with Gullah Geeche ancestry and I grew up in NY....It's crazy that those two nationalities sound so much alike....
Years ago, on a date with future hubby, we went to see "Daughters 9f the Dust " movie. There were sub-titles... I wondered out loud "why?". He replied " you're the only one in this movie that understands them". Proud of my geechee roots 😇
I da buss gone n see dang move now, cause eby bodi sey dat e movie gud. I gladdi fa see hunnuh pwoud ob e heritage! Disyah shud be haw all we kinfolk ak. 🥰
So true! I love my Charleston Geechee’s 😂😂😂
Yasss!! #ForeverGeechee
I do this every day😂 and I understood every word she said, I am Bahamian, my mother and maternal grandparents are from Turks & Caicos, I grew up hearing this beautiful language spoken around me my entire life. I'm so proud of my heritage, such a mixture of influences but an obvious shared ancestry with Black Americans in South Carolina.
Absolutely beautiful and lots of shared similarities.
Exact same, my family spoke eloquently but didn't allow us to us our Geechee outside of the house
Woowwww, this sound so West Indian I feel like I’m at a family members house!😅 I was not expecting it to sound so familiar to the ears🤯😍🙌🏾
Yes! Same when I travel to the Caribbean. This is why we need to stop the infighting. We are all kin. Blacks in the Caribbean got off the boats transporting us from Africa one stop before Charleston so to speak.
I know damn....I had to re read the title twice🤣🤣
When my West Indian husband first met my father, he fell in love with him, thinking he was from the Islands. I told him no my parents are from SC.
it took a lot of convincing for him to finally believe me.
“Kooo-reddd. Dem boi say......🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂🤣🤣right
Kead!
I'm not Gullah-geechee or west indian, but I can understand it just fine. It reminds me a bit of how my grandmother used to talk. Not the same, but familiar and cozy.
I’m a white Charleston native and I understood every bit of your Gullah-Geechee accent! I have coworkers who speak GG and I will always love it-our coworkers not from here have a hard time at first, lol, but eventually get it. Thank you for keeping this lovely culture alive! ❤
Why you being weird about it who asked if you was white. Why does your race matter
Shut up@@Challffz
The accuracy! 🤣🤣😭
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Please could you do a video in only Gullah geechee? I just subscribed to you I'm Nigerian love my African people all over
Yes! I love to hear this. I love traveling throughout the continent. I've only been to Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal and Kenya but G'd willing, I'll visit again soon.
Omg you sound like my grandmother ....if only she was alive today ❤🙏🏽
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 so me!! I'm screaming! I'm also sharing this with my Lowcountry family! They're in Beaufort and I'm in Charleston.
Native Charlestonian, LOVIN dusrighchere!!! 🤣I’ve been gone almost 30 years-and can STILL jump right back in with a blink. #GeechieGirl4Life❤️💯
She got ma at “HELLO” sounding like Mary pippins, man 😂😂😝 my ppl
My mom is a Gullah Geechee from Charleston SC and that is precisely how they talk! I love this video!
I am CRYING!!😂😂😂 this is ME!!! Lol
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Kelia Coleman Can we Speak Geechee Together?.
I work in an office that occasionally receives calls from NYC. I was on the phone with someone who was thoroughly enraged at something her school had done (Completely valid) every other sentence was "I know you're not responsible for this" and I kept assuring her that nah she was right to be mad about it. I hear a door open in the background of her call, and the RAPID FIRE CODE SWITCHING between her family and me on the phone was amazing to listen to.
I used to visit my relatives in South Carolina during the summer, watching this brings back those memories. 😭
🤣🤣🤣And we do it so effortlessly, them buckras stay in their feelings. I 💕me some us. #weoutchea
As a Bajan, I loved this!! 🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧
Boy this sounds like Charleston all day 😆 #Homesick
Come on back down ya!!!
Dis we all dey long!😂
Chucktown is in the house!
What part yall from??
I from Awendaw S.C.
YAAAAAAS! ITS UNFORUNATE THAT WE HAVE TO CODE SWITCH TO BEGIN WITH. ALL LANGUAGES & DIALECTS ARE BEAUTIFUL.
Instantly subscribed. Shout-out to you for keeping your culture alive. It's important both to our people nationally and on the global stage.
So very important. Happy to have you here.
@@DrJessicaBerry I'm honored to be here, thank you. I'm a Philly-bred continental sister (from Ghana) who speaks Pidgin, Ebonics, Krio and Patois. I yearn to learn Gullah Geechee. I'm in awe of what our ancestors both preserved and created. Such a a bountiful inheritance. I trust they're very proud of you. 🙌🏿❤
@@loveheals6184 There is a professor at Harvard who teaches Gullah. Full on 100% Gullah. We hear the vestiges of it today but it is still Gullah. I can't think of his name but he's easy enough to find.
@@GeeBee212 yes, fam, you're referring to Sunn m'Cheaux. When I learned he was about to start teaching, I was overjoyed. I actually made a public announcement in the group of poets, singers & other creatives that I was a part of. I wish you exponential reciprocity of the kindness you've shown by directing me to the resource you knew of. May our people regardless of where they are from always receive you as cherished family.
@@loveheals6184 Yes! That's him! I absolutely love Ghana! I've traveled there many times. Cape Coast to Elmina and then back to Accra. I love Kumasi and learned so much up in the North, Volta and Akosombo dam area. Can't wait to get back. Love eating Kelewele from the street vendors. To my Gullah brethren, you will feel at home in Ghana. Gullah Girl in Ghana. What a natural progression. Peace and Blessings.
Lmbooo! Yo I’m sending this to my friends . They don’t understand my life . Not only do I code switch from Trini accent to American. I go from Nicki to Becky real quick too 😂😂😂.
Facts
That is not code switching. It is speaking another language.
The entire concept of code switching is racist and harmful but saying so makes me problematic.
@@tonymarselle8812 Hello. Do some actual research into what code-switching is. No one is out here calling you problematic. Please stay away from the groups online who feel like everyone is attacking them. These groups pose themselves as being educational and looking out for people, but they are actually causing fear and negative thoughts. These groups are literally causing some people to go out and harm other people because of the fear that they feel. These groups are damaging your brain. And a sign of the damage that it's causing is your over-the-top negative reaction to a funny and harmless video about people's lived experiences. You're the only person on here who is having a negative reaction to this video. That's not a good sign. Try to have a more open mind and stop living in fear and having such negative thoughts. It's not healthy and all you're doing is spreading negativity which causes harm to other people.
That’s my sister. She can switch up in an instant 😂😂😂 I keep it Geechee! I ain care who I talkin to 😂
Bahamian here. Girl, you so much like us.
Bahamian Creole actually originated from Gullah, as a result of the loyalists of coastal South Carolina and coastal Georgia planters resettling the Bahamas accompanied by their slaves, after the British lost the Revolutionary War.
I do it all the time. I ‘m from Chicago, college educated. Not only a Geechee ting, and not a class thing either. It be a Black ting, Yeah mon. 😉
Black people migrated to Chicago from the South .
It’s like a beautiful mix of my Bahamian Accent and a black Southern accent 😫❤️🥰
Absolutely hilarious I can talk five minutes on the phone and it comes back just as natural when I'm talking to family soon as somebody calls it's like flip straight up perfect English. From Seneca South Carolina great great grandma from the Sea Islands
It’s so easy to go back!!! It’s our first language.
I'm Jamaican and I understood every word! Distant cousins fi real!
Charleston South Carolina. Geechee born and raised
Chuck town 843 all day born n raised
😂😂😂😂 I see no lies here. Black people are so talented
Right!!!
Amen amen the switch up is priceless!
I Love it!!!🤣🤣🤣
It took me a long time to switch it off and on. Shout out to N. Charleston!!
Holem down!!
Oh man, I haven't heard that in years! Living in Colorado now these people don't know nothing about Geechee. I grew up in Coastal Georgia and as a kid spent a lot of time around Daufuskie and Little Daufuskie and all over the Low Country. I remember when I was around 6 getting in trouble in school because we were all speaking geechee in the back of the room. I thought I'd forgotten it all until I saw this video. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I love their accent. Sound just like Carribeans
Family lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣. My mom was the queen of code switching between geechee and “proper English”
😂😂 they real have it down pack.
That look she gave at the end like she was trying to find something on the floor is claaaasic Gullah! 🤣🤣 #SaintHelenaIsland here.
lawd i miss my pawpaw so much 😭😭😭😭 he was Kingstree Geechee down 🤣🤣🤣 man was so silly
My folks are the Burgess’ in Kingstree❤
Born and raised in Tennessee and paternal side from SC, but I understood every word! I also have Gullah language New Testament I'm using to learn more of the language. You have a new subscriber!
Yes on point 😂 Chucktown all the way!!
You sound just like my Charleston SC cousins!!!!!!! I’m loving every bit it.
🤣🤣🤣 If this ain’t how my family from Charleston talks. Love it!
Lived in the low country of SC for a number of years. On backroad trips ended up in some amazing places. Heard a fair amount of the Gullah geechee lingo. It was really cool to experience and hear. Followed most of what she said! The old ear still got it.
Ayyyyeee 843 im from 864 love yall lower state folkz
Way yo! Have me in tears you spot on. I used to be self conscious cause I can articulate so well den bruk it and mash it up so you dun know. You are a beautiful confirmation and reminder to keep it up!
I love the Gullah accent❤❤❤🇰🇳🇰🇳🇰🇳🇰🇳🇰🇳🇰🇳
I kept listening to the ending over and over 🤣🤣
Girl you took me back home for a moment! Love it! 😘
Wayyy back! 😂
My kids get on me for this all the time..🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yup! 100% what I started doing when I joined the military!!! But when I got around my geechie folks. It was on!!! 💪😂🤣
I hear some Bajan or Bahamian in there.....that's crazy. It's Southern mixed with Caribbean. 👍🏾
It is linguistically West African dialect mixed with English. It sounds Bahamian and Jamaican because those creolized dialects are also West African mixed with English.
@@17NefertariB Indeed
This is so similar to a lot of Caribbean accents.
My husband, who’s white, had to school me.
It is very similar! Same origins. Thanks for watching.
Love the video I was raised in Ridgeville 843 STAND UP
Sooo funny! Representing Beaufort, SC... That is where my people are from... Coffin Point baby!!! My Grandfadda use to call me "Yankee gal!" Daddy slips with the accent when he is angry but my Uncles and Auntie don't skip a beat.... 24/7. Lol!... Much love!
Chucktown represent! Makes me miss the lowcountry so much!
My son's father is from St. Helena Island in South Carolina his whole family sounds just like this 😀
In a post from another Gullah Geechee creator last week they wrote the word "G'red!" I read it over and over again trying to figure it out until I remembered this video of yours. I think it is exactly what you say when you switch off the line from the bill collector and back to your family/friend. Bilingualism is fascinating, thank you for sharing!
Me all day! It's about the business everyone do not need to see the "real" you! As long as your heart is the same switch up the voice. This is so funny! Thank God for searching the heart and not the voice lol. Thanks for the laugh!
I'm from the Bahamas and she would fit right in down here!
I love going there. Feels and sounds like home.
@@DrJessicaBerry Africa is home
Thank you for the love! Crazy how we're taught to switch and not speak native tongue! My grandfather gets SOOOOOOOOO upset bout dat!! Nah let Dat die dey yah nah!
We ga talk we talk da day!
This is so funny because this is what we do and how we sound 😂😂😂 #Gullah #Geechee
I used to live in the Charleston SC area and this what I heard everyday.
UA-cam finally suggested a video I can truly relate to LOL
Disya vid tickle me! Cause lawd ee di trut! One'na my friend say how I jump in and outta accent so easy. A GA saltwata Geechee tuhdi boon!
That's crazy...my grandparents fr there but I'm listening and reading how yall talk. That shit strooong in me and all my cuzn's still and we're 2nd generation in Connecticut. You wouldn't believe it a lot of the grandkids left here still got this accent..I do dis all day at work.
@@mssnicole2u I beleeve'em. I like tuh say Gullah Geechee ppl are fuh true wata ppl. Wi cuh be put any wey and we blend. However, git us round otha Gullah Geechee folk for a li-while dat ting come out tick! Din put us back wit ppl wah we een know accent gon! Ppl can hear a accent but cyan place'em.
Yes, indeed. This here is too true. Thank you for sharing! Many blessings:0)
Let me just tell you, I truly enjoyed your lecture as part of the rein of rice events in brookgreen gardens!
That made my day. So glad you enjoyed it!! It was a fun lecture.
Lol! Reminds me of the one Geechee Experience made!
Love this. Our late father could code switch like this. ❤❤❤😊
Wonderfully real and funny. My beloved Grandmother was Gullah-Gechee. She was born in Georgia in 1914. I have subscribed to your channel. Remain Blessed and a Blessing.
That is my wife all day here in Charleston
I love it!! #Geecheegirl
I have never hit the subscribe button so hard 🤣🤣🤣 Beaufort, SC native here
I’m hollering!!!! The accuracy 😂😂😂
She sounds Bahamian because the enslaved Africans were first taken to the West Indies to be "broken in" on the sugar cane plantations before being taken to the Carolina's to work on the rice plantations. Therefore, the West Africans from Sierra Leone first went to the Bahamas and then the Carolinas and that's why they sound like they do.
Wow! I’ve heard this before. I often wonder how much we don’t know that was lost in the chaos of that time.
Spot on
Koo-redd dem boi must be fool enna 🤣🤣🤣
innit!!
us Jamaicans wouda been koo yah!
My grandparents favorite line. MUST BE FOOL Enna. Lol.
@@alchemyofedenI love it! 😊
It definitely sounds like a mix of southern and caribbean. I'm from St.Kitts and I understood every word
2 sad this is not taught in school. Beautiful langauge!
We are working to fix that!! It is a travesty. Thanks for watching.
Wow, I cant get over the code switching. Cool!
DEE ALLEN we do it so often that we forget how cool it really is!!! Thanks for watching.
Proud to be from SC. When I hear Gullah Geechie I know the person is from the low country, Williamsburg or Georgetown county, etc
There are a lot of terms that I use. So it’s always nice to hear some one sound like my sisters. I love it.
Wowowoowo, Luv’d it. Aloha from Hawaii. We speak “pidgin”. You’ll have to go utube and look up Hawaiian pidgin to here it spoken.
Yess I’ve heard of Hawaiian Pidgin! There are some similar morphological features.
Ctfu my grandfather is straight geechee my friend always be like wtf did he just say 😭
Lmao love this. The reality of code switchers
LMAOOOOOOOO this had me dead I seen this growing up my whole life lmfao
That’s right! We all saw momma doing this. It’s amazing how they switched it up on us. Thanks for watching
100% my homegirl in South Carolina!!!!!
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😂😂❤💞Hahahaaa LMAO.caz Charleston.S.C.sounds just like THAT!!😁.
“Grayyyyyyyyy” my folks comin skrate outta James island 😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂 💪🏾 Not the Guraaaaahhh #Facts #CharlEO for Life 🧬
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