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* noe-ta - snot/boogers from your nose |
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* leh leh - drool |
* leh leh - drool |
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* JooTah - Reference to food or drink after someone eats or drinks from it. Adding there germs/spit to it. |
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* Yuh joota mi drinks - You drank from my soda and I'm disgusted by it. |
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* Pile/pyle- extra weight between the legs |
* Pile/pyle- extra weight between the legs |
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* Popular boy/girl - starbai / stargyal |
* Popular boy/girl - starbai / stargyal |
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Revision as of 21:48, 11 April 2007
| Guyanese Creole | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Guyana |
Creole
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gyn |
Guyanese Creole (Creolese by its speakers; also called Guyanese Creole English or simply Guyanese) is a creole language spoken by several hundreds of thousands of people in Guyana.
Guyanese Creole is based on and strongly influenced English language. It is similar to Jamaican Creole, as well as other West Indian dialects and related to Paramaccan and Aluku. Along the Rupununi River a distinct form of Guyanese Creole exists. Also, a socially stratified creole speech continuum exists between Guyanese Creole and English. A phrase like I told him may be pronounced in various parts of the continuum:
| Utterance | Represents the speech of |
|---|---|
| [ai tɔuld hɪm] | acrolect varieties of middle-class speakers |
| [ai toːld hɪm] | |
| [ai toːl ɪm] | |
| [ai tɛl ɪm] | mesolect varieties of lower-middle and urban class speakers |
| [a tɛl ɪm] | |
| [ai tɛl ɪ] | |
| [a tɛl i] | |
| [mi tɛl i] | rural working class |
| [mi tɛl am] | basilect speech of illiterate rural laborers. |
Phrases
- I am on the phone - Meh deh pon de phone
- I don't know - Meh nah know
- What do you want - Wuh yuh want
- girl - gyal
- boy - banna
- car - cyar
- what is happening? (An every day greeting similar to What's up?)-Wappenin?
- hi what is happening-aye wappenin
- struggling (A reply to the above)-Strug'lin
- I am not talking about that.- Meh na talk about dat.
- Good Morning - Good marning.
- We are going to cook - Aweeh a gua cook
- Dont bring your ass back- Nah mek me see you rass again
- I am going back to work on Tuesday - Mi a go bak to wuk pon Chewsdey
- dont laugh boy! - nah skin yuh teet bai!
- where is Sheila? - a whey Sheila deh?
- he is over there. - he deh deh
- they are over there. - dem deh deh
- gay man. - antiman
- come over here boy. - come nuh bai?
- whats wrong with you. - a wha rong with you?
- you- yuh
- are you mad- yuh rass mod
- what are you doing -ah wah yuh ah do
- children- picknee/chirren
- stupid-dunce/schupid
- (any curse)- rass
- worst curse- skunt
- ghost- Jumbie
- Those people - Dem da
- They are over there - Dem yanda
- Us/We/Our - abee or abee dees
- Voodoo - Obi-yah
- nine-ti-nine - dress as nice as possible from head to toe
- noe-ta - snot/boogers from your nose
- leh leh - drool
- JooTah - Reference to food or drink after someone eats or drinks from it. Adding there germs/spit to it.
- Yuh joota mi drinks - You drank from my soda and I'm disgusted by it.
- Pile/pyle- extra weight between the legs
- Popular boy/girl - starbai / stargyal
External links
- Guyanese Creole at Ethnologue
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