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Guyana is considered part of the Caribbean because they speak 100% English…well creole English (broken English) to be precise.

Just like American Indians, the natives there are called Amerindian.

There’s also a huge Dutch history…dating back to the 1600 if I remember correctly.

WOW! It’s amazing to see Guyana mentioned on HN.

If you rally want to know Guyanese, get invited to one of our parties. Fun and down-to-earth folks…well most, some can definitely carry a massive ego seed.

If you haven’t met anyone in tech - greetings! A pleasure to meet you. 20 years building successful companies and products in the USA.

Wakenaam - Dutch - “Waiting for a name”.

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> creole English (broken English)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyanese_Creole

Side note: creoles are accepted as version of French/English etc. that evolved on a different timeline while getting heavy influences from the local languages. For a while it was common to call them "broken" or "bastardized" [0], in language circles that's pretty much a thing of the past I'd say. Same way we don't call French broken Latin.

[0] https://guyanachronicle.com/2013/10/13/the-rich-cultural-exp...

The map of Guyana at the top of this article listed a location called Kamuda Village, and I thought that sounded interesting, so I checked it out on Google Search and Google Maps.

There's basically nothing about it on the English Internet. A point exists on Google Maps and some auto-generated SEO spam pages exist probably for that reason. There are no photos of the location, the terrain view just shows trees. No roads nearby. It's a few hundred meters from the marginally better documented Kukui River. The Internet has a video of some kids at another part of this river who take a raft across it every day to get to school.

It looks like there are lots of places in Guyana like this. Inhabited but undocumented, at least on the public Internet. It's fascinating to me that in an era where you just assume everything is online, there's so much of the world that still isn't.

> There’s also a huge Dutch history

I thought Suriname was the Dutch Guyana

Currently. Guyana was also owned by the Dutch a few hundred years ago.

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