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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 .
Guyanese creole, a pidgin of 17th-century English, African and Hindi words, is used at home and on the street. It is the same as creoles spoken in the Eastern Caribbean such Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and St. Vincent but with different accent or emphasis on how the words are pronounced.
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 Hindustani is retained and spoken by some Indo-Guyanese for cultural and religious reasons. Guyanese Bhojpuri may be used by older generations, folk songs, or in a limited way at home, while standard Hindi is used in religious service, writing, and passively through the consumption of Hindi film exports from India. [3]
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]
Indo-Guyanese have also adopted other dishes from other cultural groups such as stews, pepperpot, ground provisions, stew chicken, bake and saltfish, sardines and bread, fried chicken, fried fish, ground provisions, barbecue chicken, metemgee, chicken soup, cook-up rice, chow mein, lo mein, fried rice, pepper shrimp, and chicken in de' ruff.
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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.