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Guyanese Creole English

Guyanese Creole English is an Indo-European language spoken in Guyana and Suriname, by about 700 thousand people.

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Guyanese Creole (Creolese by its speakers or simply Guyanese) is an English-based creole language spoken in various forms by the majority of Guyanese people. It emerged during the Atlantic Slave Trade among enslaved Africans who were brought to Dutch, and later, British Guiana from West and Central Africa, between the mid-1600s and 1834. Many of these Africans arrived via the Caribbean islands of Barbados, and the Leeward Islands. As a result, Guyanese Creole shares key features with other Afro-Caribbean English-based creoles, particularly those of the Eastern Caribbean. It contains many African retentions and has loan words from indigenous-American languages, as well as Hindustani due to Indian acculturation.

From Wikipedia · Guyanese Creole · CC BY-SA 4.0

Words in Guyanese Creole English

MeaningWordRomanization
personman*
namenem*
eyeai*
earyez*
nosenoz*
toothtit*
handhan*
bloodblod*
skinkin*
breastbobi*
waterwata
firefaya*
sunsan*
stonebrik*
treeCri*
nightnait*
dogdag*
onewan*
twotu*
Imi*
youyu*
wewi*
seesi*
hearher*
dieded*
comekom*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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