Alternate Names: Creolese, Guyanese Creole
Dialects: Afro-Guyanese Creole, Indo-Guyanese Creole, Rupununi. Most similar to creoles of Saint Vincent and Tobago (Holbrook). Rupununi dialect may be a separate language. Rupununi claim they are not mutually inherently intelligible.
Status Notes: De facto language of national identity.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 650,000 in Guyana. 250,000 Blacks and 400,000 Hindustanis. Population total all countries: 700,000.
Language Use: The first or second language of most, but it has no official status. Home. Neutral attitudes. Used as L2 by Caribbean Hindustani [hns], Macushi [mbc], Warao [wba].
Language Development: Poetry. Radio programs. TV. Videos. Grammar.
Spoken In: Guyana
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Guyana
Other Comments: There is a continuum of variation from basilectal Creole to acrolectal English of the educated.