Caroline Speaking Gullah and English

[Samori Toure]

Yeah, that's def right IMOI'm from east tn and can tell a difference with west tn/memphis, def more a deep south drawl, which I would think is the result of regional migration (black belt).

Memphis brehs would always clown saying we (knoxville) sounded white.

Middle Tennessee Black folks seem to be a blend of East and West. So it kind of ties it all together. Oh yea I have to give you the obligatory .

 

[GoAggieGo.]

Man, when I lived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Biloxi/Gulfport), I did notice how they talked different than those in North Mississippi. Those in North Mississippi sound just like folks in Memphis, Arkansas, and St Louis. They sound just like Project Pat and Yo Gotti lol.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Man, when I lived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Biloxi/Gulfport), I did notice how they talked different than those in North Mississippi. Those in North Mississippi sound just like folks in Memphis, Arkansas, and St Louis. They sound just like Project Pat and Yo Gotti lol.

Yeah their -er’s sound like -ur.

Gimmie a bur
Over der

 

[BillBanneker]

Middle Tennessee Black folks seem to be a blend of East and West. So it kind of ties it all together. Oh yea I have to give you the obligatory .

Well, the state does get more the further east you go.


Except for Chattanooga, they're a little different.

 

[GoAggieGo.]

Yeah their -er’s sound like -ur.

Gimmie a bur
Over der

Bruh, that’s it! They’ll also put r in their words too, but my grandparents and relatives in rural NC do that too.

Go to the store and get a thing of mirlk
I got an idear
There’s a fewr over there

I love learning and listening to how AA’s talk throughout certain regions. The south is so huge and we all talk differently. When I was on the gulf, I noticed a lot of the natives had high pitched country accents; like a pimp c or Boosie and webbie.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Bruh, that’s it! They’ll also put r in their words too, but my grandparents and relatives in rural NC do that too.

Go to the store and get a thing of mirlk
I got an idear
There’s a fewr over there

I love learning and listening to how AA’s talk throughout certain regions. The south is so huge and we all talk differently. When I was on the gulf, I noticed a lot of the natives had high pitched country accents; like a pimp c or Boosie and webbie.

Also dunny about that region is their use of “mane” lol damn near use it in every sentence to ensure you follow what they saying. Liberians do the same with the phrase “my man”

 

[Samori Toure]

Bruh, that’s it! They’ll also put r in their words too, but my grandparents and relatives in rural NC do that too.

Go to the store and get a thing of mirlk
I got an idear
There’s a fewr over there

I love learning and listening to how AA’s talk throughout certain regions. The south is so huge and we all talk differently. When I was on the gulf, I noticed a lot of the natives had high pitched country accents; like a pimp c or Boosie and webbie.

Our when they are thinking out loud I used to hear them say "awra" or "ora" instead "aw." Instead of aw, let me think about that. It was awra let me think about that. I used to think that were saying "okra, let me think about that."

I got my ass beat so many times for not knowing what they were saying.

 

[Samori Toure]

Also dunny about that region is their use of “mane” lol damn near use it in every sentence to ensure you follow what they saying. Liberians do the same with the phrase “my man”

I always laugh about that too. I know they are saying man, but when they said mane or in West Tennessee "mayne" I would fall out laughing.

I always wondered if the slaves were aware of that Mane Invasion into Sierra Leone and Liberia from Mali. That might explain that word, maybe.

 

[JahFocus CS]

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[Black Haven]

Man, when I lived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Biloxi/Gulfport), I did notice how they talked different than those in North Mississippi. Those in North Mississippi sound just like folks in Memphis, Arkansas, and St Louis. They sound just like Project Pat and Yo Gotti lol.

North mississippi (South Haven,Horn lake,OliveBranch) are all apart of the midsouth Memphis area even though they're in Mississippi. Folks from that region are heavily Memphis influenced from dances, lingo etc. The gulf side of Mississippi seems to identify more with southern louisiana and if I'm not mistaken there's a ton of creoles in that part of sip as well.

 

[TEH]

Sounds like a cross between a southern and a carribean accent. Crazy.

So, geechee/gullah people are descendants of Caribbean slaves?

Cause many Gullahs went to live in the Caribbean

So it’s they have a Gullah accent

 

[GoAggieGo.]

North mississippi (South Haven,Horn lake,OliveBranch) are all apart of the midsouth Memphis area even though they're in Mississippi. Folks from that region are heavily Memphis influenced from dances, lingo etc. The gulf side of Mississippi seems to identify more with southern louisiana and if I'm not mistaken there's a ton of creoles in that part of sip as well.

Yep. My homie straight from south MS, but if you heard him talk, you’d think he was from New Orleans or Louisiana. Gotta few homeboys on the coast like that.

Mardi Gras just as big on the coast as it is NO as well.

 

[Black Haven]

Yep. My homie straight from south MS, but if you heard him talk, you’d think he was from New Orleans or Louisiana. Gotta few homeboys on the coast like that.

Mardi Gras just as big on the coast as it is NO as well.

It amazes me how culturally different sip is. It's so diverse from the midsouth, Delta and gulf regions all in one state. It's very interesting.

 

[NeilCartwright]

Nah in GA being “country” i.e from Macon,Waycross,Columbus, etc Is not the same as when someone says you are “Geechee”. You are using “country” and “traditional” in the literal sense and i am using it in the sense that there are enough difference in the cultures that they can be seen as being distinct groups of people.

People from Florida and the Sea islands are a different kind of “country”.

This is 100% true.

I remember coming up and knowing of Gullah people living by the coast, but didn’t know too much of them. Just that they were an ethnic group within the AA parent group.

And their accent stems from African dialect I’m guessing but how we talk in the south is somewhat similar, but still different. It’s to the point now I can turn that accent off and on like a light switch.

And to people who think others look down on you if you talk “country” or w/e you want to call it, yes they do. I feel like that dialect is a mixture of the slaves in the south talked, mixing the African tongue with English but I could be wrong.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

Preserve and teach that shyt
We need a new language to speak amongst ourselves that outsiders can't understand
Make cacs feel like they're listening to a Camp Lo album