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Afro-Seminole Creole (ASC) is a dialect of Gullah spoken by Black Seminoles in scattered communities in Oklahoma, Texas, and Northern Mexico.[2][lower-alpha 1]

Afro-Seminole Creole
Native to	United States, Mexico
Ethnicity	Black Seminoles
Native speakers	(200 in Mexico cited 1990)[1]
Language family	English Creole Atlantic Eastern Northern Gullah Afro-Seminole Creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3	afs
Glottolog	afro1254
Linguasphere	52-ABB-ac

Afro-Seminole Creole was first identified in 1978 by Ian Hancock, a linguist at the University of Texas. Before that, no one in the academic world was aware of its existence. ASC arose when enslaved Gullah speakers from the South Carolina and Georgia coastal region, later called "Black Seminoles," escaped from slavery on rice plantations and fled into the Florida wilderness. This process began in the late 1600s, and continued into the 1830s. In Florida, the Black Seminoles built their own independent communities, but established a close partnership with the Seminole Indians. That alliance helped protect both groups during the First and Second Seminole Wars.[2]

The present-day speakers of Afro-Seminole Creole live in Seminole County, Oklahoma and Brackettville, Texas in the United States, and in Nacimiento de los Negros, Coahuila, Mexico. ASC is threatened with extinction as there are only about 200 native speakers today.[2] The speakers of ASC are all descendants of the Black Seminoles who settled in Florida and then, through a series of wars and other threats, were driven first to what is now Oklahoma and Northern Mexico, and later into Texas after the Civil War. The speakers of ASC are all 65 years of age or older, so unless actions are soon taken, ASC will likely be extinct in one or two decades.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Black Seminoles
• Seminole
• Gullah language
• Krio language
• Mascogos
• Muskogean languages
• Ian Hancock

Notes

References

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20050511220455/http://www.linguasphere.org/anglo_creole.pdf

На других языках

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- [en] Afro-Seminole Creole

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[ru] Афро-семинольский креольский язык

А́фро-семино́льский крео́льский язы́к (Afro-Seminol Criollo, Afro-Seminole, Afro-Seminole Creole, Black Seminole, Seminole) — вымирающий диалект языка галла, на котором говорят чёрные семинолы, которые проживают в муниципалитете Насимьенто-де-лос-Негрос штата Коауила в Мексике, а также в городе Бракетвил штата Техас и в округе Семиноле штата Оклахома в США. Имеет мексиканский и техасский диалекты.

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