| 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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Guyanese Creole (Creolese by its speakers or simply Guyanese) 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]
- ^ a b Guyanese Creole at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ "Guyanese Creole Survey Report David J. Holbrook and Holly A. Holbrook SIL International 2001". scholar.googleusercontent.com. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
