Guyanese Creole

Guyanese Creole (Creolese by its speakers or simply Guyanese) is an English-based creole language spoken in various forms by the majority of Guyanese people. It emerged during the Atlantic Slave Trade among enslaved Africans who were brought to Dutch, and later, British Guiana from West and Central Africa, between the mid-1600s and 1834. Many of these Africans arrived via Caribbean islands such as: Barbados, St.kitts, and Antigua. As a result, Guyanese Creole shares key features with other Afro-Caribbean English-based creoles, particularly those of the Eastern Caribbean. It also contains loan words from indigenous-American languages and Hindustani, brought by Indian indentured laborers between the mid-1800s to early-1900s.