Gullah Geechee is an oral, Creole language containing distinctive features of the African languages spoken by their ancestors. Typically referred to as talking “Gullah” or “Geechee,” the Gullah Geechee language began as a pidgin: a simplified, ad-hoc speech variety used for communication among people of different languages. Arising out of a matrix of various African languages and English, this pidgin took on a more definite form as a Creole language as it became a mother tongue and the native la