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Guyanese Creole

Not to be confused with French Guianese Creole.
Guyanese Creole
Creolese
Native toGuyana
Native speakers
643,000 in Guyana (2021)[1]
68,000 in Suriname (2018)[1]
English Creole
  • Atlantic
    • Eastern
      • Southern
        • Guyanese Creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3gyn
Glottologcreo1235
Linguasphere52-ABB-av
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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]

  1. ^ a b Guyanese Creole at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ "Guyanese Creole Survey Report David J. Holbrook and Holly A. Holbrook SIL International 2001". scholar.googleusercontent.com. Retrieved 2020-04-03.