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Sea Islanders translate rare 1930s Gullah recordings
Emory Campbell joins 25 native islanders and Georgia Southern University linguistics scholar Thomas Klein to translate long unheard 1930s Gullah Geechee recordings. The project aims to preserve the language once discouraged in schools while noting its status as a living but endangered Creole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hilton Head Island
Emory Campbell
Campbell
Georgia Southern University
Thomas Klein
Sapelo Island
Hilton Head
Sapelo
Lorenzo Dow Turner
Sea Islands
Klein
Indiana University Archives of
Ray Crook
University of West Georgia