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Where is Guianese Creole French spoken?

Guianese Creole French (Kriyòl Gwiyannen) is an Indo-European language, spoken in Brazil, France and Suriname. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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Where Guianese Creole French is spoken

Guianese Creole French is spoken in 3 countries: Brazil, France and Suriname.

Country
Brazil
France
Suriname

On the map, Guianese Creole French is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Guianese Creole French.

How many people speak Guianese Creole French?

Wikidata gives about 300,000 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.

Status: Not endangered. Glottolog lists it as not endangered: it is still being passed on to children.

Where Guianese Creole French sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Guianese Creole French as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Italic
  4. Latino-Faliscan
  5. Latinic
  6. Imperial Latin
  7. Romance
  8. Italo-Western Romance
  9. Western Romance
  10. Shifted Western Romance
  11. Northwestern Shifted Romance
  12. Gallo-Rhaetian
  13. Oil
  14. Central Oil
  15. Macro-French
  16. Circum-Caribbean French
  17. Guyanic Creole French
  18. Guianese Creole French

Related languages

Other languages in the Guyanic Creole French group:

More about Guianese Creole French

Codes: ISO 639-3 gcr, Glottolog guia1246. Glottolog macroarea: South America.

Guianese Creole French is a Romance language, descended from Latin. Latin’s footprint: the Roman Empire at its height → Latin spread along Roman roads →

Questions about Guianese Creole French

Where is Guianese Creole French spoken?

Guianese Creole French is spoken in Brazil, France and Suriname. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.

How many people speak Guianese Creole French?

Wikidata gives about 300,000 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.

Which language family is Guianese Creole French in?

Glottolog places Guianese Creole French in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Italic, Latino-Faliscan, Latinic, Imperial Latin, Romance, Italo-Western Romance, Western Romance, Shifted Western Romance, Northwestern Shifted Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, Oil, Central Oil, Macro-French, Circum-Caribbean French and Guyanic Creole French.

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