Turner, Lorenzo Dow
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African American linguist. A graduate of both Howard and Harvard Universities, Lorenzo Dow Turner (1895-1972) taught English as well as courses about African cultures at Roosevelt University until he retired at the age of 70. Turner's best known studies pertain to the Gullah language and culture of the Georgia and South Carolina Sea Islands. Turner also studied West African languages and Yoruba influences in Brazil. His books include "The Krio Language of Sierra Leone" (1963), and "Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect" (1949).
From the description of Selected files on the Gullah language from the papers of Lorenzo D. Turner held by the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University, 1988 [microform]. (College of Charleston). WorldCat record id: 31734869
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Subjects:
- African Americans
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Folk literature
- Linguistics
- Names, African
- Proverbs
- Sea Islands Creole dialect
- Sea Islands Creole dialect
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- Wadmalaw Island (S.C.) (as recorded)
- South Carolina (as recorded)
- Sea Islands (as recorded)
- Edisto Island (S.C.) (as recorded)
- Johns Island (S.C.) (as recorded)
