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Guyanese Creole (Creolese by its speakers or simply Guyanese) is an English-based creole language spoken by the Guyanese people. Linguistically, it is similar to other English dialects of the Caribbean region, based on 19th-century English and has loan words from West African, Indian - South Asian , Arawakan , and older Dutch languages .
As Guyanese Creolese is an English dialect, the words are English words pronounced with an accent. Similar to how someone from Massachusetts would say "cyar pak" for the phrase "car park", the phrases noted on the page are simply english words spelled phonetically like how they would sound.
Guyanese culture reflects the influence of Indian, African, Amerindian, British, Portuguese, Chinese, Creole, and Dutch cultures. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Guyana is part of the mainland Caribbean region. Guyanese culture shares a continuum with the cultures of islands in the West Indies .
A slice of Guyanese cassava pone. Pone is a type of baked or fried bread in American cuisine, and the Cuisine of the Southern United States. Pone could be made with corn, or some other main ingredient could be used like sweet potato. This style of bread, eaten cold as a breakfast food, was a staple food of the cuisine of the Thirteen Colonies. [1]
Demographics as of 2012 are Indo-Guyanese 39.8%, Afro-Guyanese 30.1%, mixed race (mostly Dougla) 19.9%, Amerindian 10.5%, other 1.5% (including Chinese and Europeans, such as the Portuguese). As a result, Guyanese do not equate their nationality with race and ethnicity, but with citizenship.
The sauce, while based on a recipe used in India, did not grow popular in the west until marketed by Lea and Perrins. ... and barely say the second “r”. Start the word off by saying “Wooster ...
French Guianese Creole was a language spoken between slaves and settlers.But the conditions of French Guianese Creole's constitution were quite different from the Creole of the West Indies, on the one hand because of the conflicts between French, English, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish, and French dialects such as the Caen have greatly influenced French Guianese Creole, which has made it ...
Indigenous peoples in Guyana, Native Guyanese or Amerindian Guyanese are Guyanese people who are of indigenous ancestry. They comprise approximately 9.16% of Guyana 's population. [ 1 ] Amerindians are credited with the invention of the canoe , [ 2 ] as well as Cassava-based dishes and Guyanese pepperpot , the national dish of Guyana.