Statistics for occurrence #1 of “South Carolina” in chapter 2.18 of Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2:
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(2) The dialect of the Sea Islands of the South Atlantic States, known as the Gullah (or Gulla) dialect.
The name is probably derived from Angola, as many of the rice-field negroes of South Carolina and Georgia are known to have come from the west coast of Africa.
This diminishing dialect is spoken on the rice plantations of coastal South Carolina and Georgia as the Uncle Remus dialect is spok...
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† | South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) | 21,990 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes |
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