Flashcards: Languages of Guyana

Macushi is the most populous of the Cariban languages, spoken by 30,000 in Brazil and Guyana.

Mawayana (Mahuayana), also known as Mapidian (Maopidyán), is a moribund Arawakan language of Guyana.

The Pemon language, or Arekuna, is a Native American language of the Cariban family spoken by some 30,000 Pemon people, in Venezuela's Southeast, particularly in the Canaima National Park, in the Roraima State of Brazil and in Guyana.

Kapóng is a Cariban language spoken mainly in Guyana, most commonly in the region of the Upper Mazaruni.

Atorada is a moribund Arawakan language of Brazil and Guyana.

Wapishana (Wapixana) is an Arawakan language of Guyana and Brazil.

Waiwai /ˈwaɪwaɪ/ (Uaiuai, Uaieue, Ouayeone) is a Cariban language of northern Brazil, with a couple hundred speakers across the border in southern Guyana.

American Sign Language (ASL) is the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of anglophone Canada.

Carib or Kari'nja is a Cariban language spoken by the Kalina people (Caribs) of South America.

Berbice Dutch Creole is a now extinct Dutch-based creole language.

Warao (also known as Guarauno, Guarao, Warrau) is the native language of the Warao people.

Lokono (Lokono Dian, literally 'people’s talk' by its speakers), also referred to as Arawak (Arowak/Aruák), is an Arawak language spoken by the Lokono people of South America in eastern Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.

Caribbean Hindustani is a form of the Bhojpuri dialect of Hindustani spoken in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, Jamaica, Barbados, and the rest of the Caribbean region with significant Indian influence.

Guyanese Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Guyana.

Guyanese Creole (Creolese by its speakers: or simply Guyanese) is an English-based creole language spoken by people in Guyana.

Skepi is an extinct Dutch-based creole language of Guyana, spoken in the region of Essequibo.