Guyanese Creole

Guyanese Creole
Creolese
Native toGuyana
Native speakers
643,000 in Guyana (2021)
68,000 in Suriname (2018)
English Creole
  • Atlantic
    • Eastern
      • Southern
        • Guyanese Creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3gyn
Glottologcreo1235
Linguasphere52-ABB-av

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 Indian-South Asian, West African, Arawakan, and older Dutch languages.