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The Caribbean Hindustani of Guyana is known as Guyanese Hindustani, Guyanese Bhojpuri, Puraniya Hindi, or Aili Gaili.It is spoken by some members in a community of 300,000 Indo-Guyanese, mostly by the older generation, Hindu priests, and imams. [7]
Suchitra Mattai, Guyanese-born American contemporary artist Avi Nash , American actor Priyanka (stage name of Mark Suknanan), Canadian television presenter, drag artist, and winner of Canada's Drag Race Season 1
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Although citizens make up the majority of Guyanese, there is a substantial number of Guyanese expatriates, dual citizens and descendants living worldwide, chiefly elsewhere in the Anglosphere. Located on the northern coast of South America, Guyana is part of the main land Caribbean which is part of the historical British West Indies .
English is the official language of Guyana, which is the only South American country with English as the official language. [1] [2] The Umana Yana in Georgetown; the name means "Meeting place of the people" in Waiwai. Guyanese Creole (an English-based creole with African, Indian, and Amerindian syntax) is widely spoken in Guyana. [1]
Country Region Population Status India Asia 1,367,703,110 [1]: Hindi is one of the two official union languages of India alongside English.Hindi and Urdu (both registers of Hindustani language) are official languages along with 20 others under the Eighth Schedule of Constitution of India.
This is a list of notable Guyanese. This list includes people born in Guyana , notably of Guyanese descent, or otherwise strongly associated to Guyana. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Foreign names that are the same as their English equivalents are also listed. See also: List of alternative country names. Please format entries as follows: for languages written in the Latin alphabet, write "Name (language)", for example, "Afeganistão (Portuguese