Guyanese Creole
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.
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| Native to | Guyana |
Native speakers | 643,000 in Guyana (2021) 68,000 in Suriname (2018) |
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| ISO 639-3 | gyn |
| Glottolog | creo1235 |
| Linguasphere | 52-ABB-av |
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