Guyanese Creole
English-based creole language spoken in Guyana / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Guyanese English Creole (Creolese by its speakers or simply Gayiniiz) is an English-based creole language spoken by the Guyanese people. Linguistically, it is similar to other English dialects of the Caribbean region, based on 19th-century English and has loan words from West African, Indian-South Asian, Arawakan, and older Dutch languages.[2]
English-based creole language spoken in Guyana
| Guyanese Creole | |
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| Creolese | |
| Native to | Guyana |
Native speakers | 643,000 in Guyana (2021)[1] 68,000 in Suriname (2018)[1] |
English Creole
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gyn |
| Glottolog | creo1235 |
| Linguasphere | 52-ABB-av |
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