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Harvard introduces Gullah language class taught by a Charleston-born artist
The native Lowcountry language is now one of 45 taught at the African Language Program
by Adam Manno
December 19, 2017

Charleston native and performance artist Sunn m'Cheaux spent the fall semester at Harvard teaching an introductory version of a course on Gullah: A language indigenous to the Lowcountry region often described as a combination of English and Central and West African languages. 

The pidgin language originally allowed enslaved African people from various tribes to communicate with each other and with their overseers, and is still spoken by African-American communities across coastal regions of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.

The Gullah class is the first of its kind at the Ivy League school. It's part of the African Language Program within the Department of African and African American Studies.

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