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Name:
Guyanese Creole English
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Creolese; Guyanese Creole
Number of speakers:
650,000 in Guyana. 250,000 Blacks and 400,000 Hindustanis. Population total all countries: 700,000
(Ethnologue)
Code:
gyn
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Pidgins and Creoles
Parent Subgroup:
Southern Eastern Atlantic Creole (seat)
Child Dialects:
Indo-Guyanese Creole (gyn-ind)
Rupununi (gyn-rup)
Afro-Guyanese Creole (gyn-afr)

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