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From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: African languages in North America
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Jon Harald Haug <jonhaug@telepost.no> wrote:
>Does
>anyone know how long African languages did survive in the USA (or the
>colonies preceding it)?

One book that might be of interest is: AFRICANISMS IN THE
GULLAH DIALECT by Lorenzo Dow Turner (Chicago, 1949; reprint, 
Michigan, 1972).  Turner documented about 4000 words, from 21
African languages, that survived in the Gullah dialect on the
coast of South Carolina and Georgia.  This particular book 
might not answer your specific question about survival of
entire languages, but it might have some references in the 
bibliography that would be more specifically relevant.



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