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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