Claim: Guyana is characterized as being in the Caribbean Region.

Guyanese Creole -LRB- Creolese by its speakers : or simply Guyanese -RRB- is an English-based creole language spoken by people in Guyana . Linguistically , it is similar to other English dialects of the Caribbean region , but has most influences of African and some loan words from Dutch , Arawakan languages , and Indian -LRB- East Indian -RRB- languages .