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GuyaneseCreoleEnglishLanguage
The GuyaneseCreoleEnglishLanguage is a SouthEasternAtlanticEnglishBasedCreoleLanguage of Guyana. SIL code: GYN. ISO 639-2: cpe. Population: 650,000 possibly (250,000 Blacks and 400,000 Hindustanis). Population total all countries: 700,000. Region: Georgetown, coast, and Rupununi River area. There may be some in French Guiana. Also spoken in Suriname, USA. Alternate names: CREOLESE, GUYANESE CREOLE. Dialects: AFRO-GUYANESE CREOLE, RUPUNUNI, INDO-GUYANESE CREOLE. Comments: It may be intelligible with other English based creoles of the Caribbean. Closest to creoles of Windward and Leeward Islands and Tobago. Rupununi may be a separate language. Speakers of Rupununi, Berbice Creole Dutch, and Skepi Creole Dutch claim they are not inherently intelligible with each other. It will remain the home language and be used alongside Standard English (M. Adler 1977). There is a creole continuum with Standard English. The first or second language of most people, but it has no official status. Grammar. Also spoken in: Suriname. (Language name: GUYANESE CREOLE ENGLISH.) Population: 50,000 in Suriname (1986 SIL). Alternate names: CREOLESE, GUYANESE CREOLE. Comments: Literacy rate in second language: 25% to 50%.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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InstancesAtlanticEnglishBasedCreoleLanguageAn AtlanticEnglishBasedCreoleLanguage is an EnglishBasedCreoleLanguage that evolved in areas in and near the AtlanticOcean.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 ContentBearingPhysicalAny Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition.
 CreoleLanguageA CreoleLanguage is a PidginLanguage that has developed and become the mother tongue for a community of people. This process is called 'creolization' and results in an expanded vocabulary and grammar structure that allow for communication as rich and complex as that of non-creole languages. While pidgins are regarded as reduced languages, creoles are considered expanded languages. That is, while pidgins develop to enable communication in relatively isolated domains, creoles allow for a full range of expressive possibilities on a par with more 'recognized' languages.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 EasternAtlanticEnglishBasedCreoleLanguageAn EasternAtlanticEnglishBasedCreoleLanguage is an AtlanticEnglishBasedCreoleLanguage that evolved in eastern areas of the AtlanticOcean.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 EnglishBasedCreoleLanguageAn EnglishBasedCreoleLanguage is a CreoleLanguage using a grammatical and core lexical foundation of the EnglishLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 EntityThe universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
 HumanLanguageThe subclass of Languages used by Humans.
 LanguageA system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
 LinguisticExpressionThis is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words.
 PhysicalAn entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
 SouthEasternAtlanticEnglishBasedCreoleLanguageA SouthEasternAtlanticEnglishBasedCreoleLanguage is an EasternAtlanticEnglishBasedCreoleLanguage that evolved in southern areas near the eastern AtlanticOcean.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 SpokenHumanLanguageA SpokenHumanLanguage is a HumanLanguage which has as its medium the human voice. It can also be represented visually through writing, although not all SpokenHumanLanguages have a codified written form.
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