at Gullah is a shortened form of Angola, the name of an African West Coast distract lying south of the Equator and the mouth of the Congo River. A small but positive bit of evidence to this effect is found in an entry of the Charleston City Council, under the year 1822, in which reference is made to "Gullah Jack" and his company of the "Gullah or Angola Negroes" (Johnson 4). This shows that Gullah was perceived as a corrupted form of Angola during the early 1800's by the official governing body of the city of Charleston. Smith's second probable suggestion was that "Gullah comes from the Liberian group of tribes known as the Golas living in the West Coast between Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast" (Johnson 5). Smith's research is one of the most widely accepted forms of were Gullah originated.
             How Gullah developed is another important factor that shows us how it formed into a language. In another study Virginia Mixson Gearaty suggest that Gullah derived from pidgin a contact vernacular that was spoken by tribesmen brought from the West Indies that were sold into slavery in America. Gearatys' research states, "The pidgin language became influenced by the various Creoles spoken by the natives in the West Indian Islands. Later many of the slaves were brought by plantation owners in the American colonies, where their language was further influenced by the English dialects used by the overseers on these plantations. From the leveling of all these linguistic influences, a new language developed. This language, became known as Gullah, attained Creole status during the mid 1700s, and was learned and used by the second generation of slaves as their mother tongue" (Gullahcreole.html). This shows that Gullah was a language that was a mixture of several other languages that formed into a languag
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