Afro-Seminole Creole
| Afro-Seminole Creole | |
|---|---|
| Native to | United States, Mexico |
| Ethnicity | Black Seminoles |
Native speakers | (200 in Mexico cited 1990)[1] |
English Creole
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | afs |
| Linguasphere | 52-ABB-ac |
Afro-Seminole Creole is a dialect of Gullah spoken by Black Seminoles in scattered communities in Oklahoma, Texas, and Northern Mexico.
It was first identified in 1978 as a language by Ian Hancock, a linguist at the University of Texas. The Creole developed when Black Seminoles and Seminoles lived together in Florida in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Speakers of Afro-Seminole Creole live in Seminole County, Oklahoma, and Brackettville, Texas, in the United States and in Nacimiento de los Negros, Coahuila, in Mexico. There are about 200 speakers of the language.
See also
Notes
- ^ Afro-Seminole Creole at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
