I'm from Miami. My mom's side is originally from Georgia (though my mom and her parents were also born in Miami). My dad's parents are from the Bahamas. Growing up, my maternal grandmother would always call my dad's side "geechees" or "geechee people". I always thought she was just using some random name to make fun of their accent until I grew up and learned about the Gullah Geechee people.
Dad's dad was Gullah and Bahamian..just found his family too. Imagine the fights he had calling his sons geechee or gullah when my grandmother's family was Southwest Louisiana and Louisiana creole 😂😂
I think you gettin your colloquialisms (the local dialect) mixed up, creole is a variation of french Or pigin french, (Bozame, suc pase) (don't take my word for it, look it up) basically Bahamians speak a form of pigin English, Kinda like the Jamaicans, similar but not matching, Jamaicans speak a colloquialism known as Patois (patwah), (Ayyyy Rasta, Wha Gwan man) Whatever it is Bahamians speak, its definitely not creole, Bahamians speak two languages, English and Bad English! I should know, I Born, Bred, and ga dead, Bahamian!
Well you wrong! Creole is exactly what this fellow described and if you don't believe me then just look it. In Belize there's Kriol, in Guyana there's Creolese and in Sierra Leone there's Krio just to name a few English Creoles. Now Patois, it's funny that you accept the Jamaicans calling their ting Patois when infact Patois is the French word for local French dialects
@@herewegoagin4667 A true Bahamian do not speak creole! I don't care who speak what and where they speak it, A Haitian Bahamian, possibly, but a natural born Bahamian no sir, I born and grew up Nassau and I know the difference Bozame, Yeah you een fooling nobody!
@@mibnixon Buddy you just don't know the definition of a Creole language. The first Creoles were Portuguese not French Y'all may not call it Creole but to many linguists they consider it A Creole
@@herewegoagin4667 go to Nassau and tell them they speaking creole and see what response you get, you probably ga get cuss right out, except for the, Haitian Bahamians, who probably ga say, oh yes papi, is all Creole, we tek ova, papi, we tek it all!
@@mibnixon Dude you speaking from a local perspective I'm talking professional linguist, they categorize 1) Bahamian Dialect as a (English) Creole Language. 2) Jamaican Patois is a (English) Creole Language. 3) Haitian Creole is a (French) Creole Language. 4) Aruban Papiamento is a (Portuguese/Spanish) Creole Language. local speaker usually have their own names for their dialects
