Common Ancestor of American Ebonics and West African Pidgin English
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi My second Black History Month article dwells on the intriguing but not surprising historical ...
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Showing posts with label Gullah. Show all posts
Gullah: Long Lost Africans in America Who’re Still African
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In the United States and Canada, February is celebrated as the “Black History Month.” ...
African Words in America’s Gullah English Dialect II
By Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Last week, I highlighted many African-derived words in the Gullah dialect that Dr. L...
African Words in America’s Gullah English Dialect (I)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Last week I identified some notable African onomastic (onomastics is the scienc...
Kafiri, Saitan, Ogbomosho: Strange Personal Names Among America’s Gullah People
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In last week’s column , I promised to share with the reader some of the n...
Gullah: An African-American English Dialect No One Understands
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In line with my tradition to highlight aspects of the linguistic culture of Blac...
African Words in the American English Gullah Dialect (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Last week , I highlighted many African-derived words in the Gullah dialect that ...
African Words in the American English Gullah Dialect
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Last week I identified some notable African onomastic (onomastics is the scienc...
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