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Creolese

Guyanese Creole
South Ozone Park +4
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Guyanese independence from Britain in 1966, and the political and economic uncertainty that resulted, led to massive waves of immigration to New York — now a nerve center of the Guyanese diaspora. Among both Afro- and Indo-Guyanese, there are still speakers of Guyanese Creole, an English-based language similar to other Caribbean-based creoles with loanwords from African, Indian, Arawakan, and Dutch languages, though fewer young people speak it. Some Indo-Caribbean New Yorkers from Guyana, Trinidad, and Suriname may be familiar with Caribbean Hindustani.
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nlike Afro-Guyanese migrants to New York, most Indo-Guyanese chose to settle in Queens (especially Richmond Hill and Ozone Park) near other Indo-Caribbean and South Asian communities, with some also settling in the Bronx (where the Shri Vishnu Mandir is one religious institution). A number of distinctively Indo-Caribbean Hindu temples have also been built across Brooklyn and Queens, where some combination of English, Hindi, and Sanskrit may be used, and there are also Indo-Caribbean Tamil New Yorkers.

Note that the language above may be used throughout the New York area — this is just one significant site.
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Creolese

Guyanese Creole

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