From his research conducted in the late 1930s, Lorenzo Turner was the first linguist to document over 4000 Africanisms in the Gullah lexicon, many of them used as basket names (e.g.
"The Gullah lexicon is largely English. (A Gullah proverb, from The Gullah People and Their African Heritage, 2005) "On possible to get straight wood from crooked timber." Mufwene, "North American Varieties of English as Byproducts of Population Contacts," in The Workings of Language, ed.
Of all the vernaculars associated with African Americans, it is the one that diverges the most from (White) middle-class varieties in North America." "The English variety spoken by descendants of Africans on the coast of South Carolina is known as Gullah and has been identified as a creole.
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