A report on Guyana, Caribbean and Caribbean Hindustani

Sarnami Hindustani (Roman script) plaque at Suriname Memorial, Garden Reach, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Map of Caribbean region, including dependencies

Kaieteur Falls is the world's largest single-drop waterfall by volume.

A Cuban PT-76 tank crew performing routine security duties in Angola during the Cuban intervention into the country

Tropical monsoon climate in San Andrés island, Caribbean, Colombia.

Anomaloglossus beebei (Kaieteur), specific to the Guianas

Köppen climate map of the islands of the Caribbean.

The hoatzin is the national bird of Guyana.

A field in Pinar del Rio planted with Cuban tobacco

A tractor in a rice field on Guyana's coastal plain

Puerto Rico's south shore, from the mountains of Jayuya

A proportional representation of Guyana exports, 2019

A church cemetery perched in the mountains of Guadeloupe

Guyana's population density in 2005 (people per km2)

A view of Nevis island from the southeastern peninsula of Saint Kitts

A graph showing the population of Guyana from 1961 to 2003. The population decline in the 1980s can be clearly seen.

Spanish Caribbean Islands in the American Viceroyalties 1600

The State House, Guyana's presidential residence

Political evolution of Central America and the Caribbean from 1700 to present

The mostly Spanish-controlled Caribbean in the 16th century

Cayo de Agua, Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela

Map of Guyana, showing the Essequibo River and (shaded dark) the river's drainage basin. Venezuela claims territory up to the western bank of the river. The historical claim by the UK included the river basin well into current-day Venezuela.

Palancar Beach in Cozumel Island, Mexico

Cross-border bridge from Guyana to Brazil near Lethem

Agostino Brunias. Free Women of Color with Their Children and Servants in a Landscape Brooklyn Museum

Providence Stadium as seen from the East Bank Highway

Asian Indians in the late nineteenth century singing and dancing in Trinidad and Tobago

Havana Cathedral (Catholic) in Cuba completed in 1777

Holy Trinity Cathedral, an Anglican Christian cathedral in Trinidad and Tobago

Temple in the Sea, a Hindu mandir in Trinidad and Tobago

Muhammad Ali Jinnah Memorial Masjid, a Muslim masjid in Trinidad and Tobago

Flag of the Caribbean Common Market and Community (CARICOM)

Doubles, one of the national dishes of Trinidad and Tobago

Arroz con gandules, one of the national dishes of Puerto Rico

thumb|Counter-attack by Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces supported by T-34 tanks near Playa Giron during the Bay of Pigs Invasion, 19 April 1961.

thumb|A Marine heavy machine gunner monitors a position along the international neutral corridor in Santo Domingo, 1965.

thumb|A Soviet-made BTR-60 armored personnel carrier seized by US forces during Operation Urgent Fury (1983)

thumb|US Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, Bell AH-1 Cobra and Bell OH-58 Kiowa helicopters on deck of the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) off Haiti, 1994.

Epiphytes (bromeliads, climbing palms) in the rainforest of Dominica.

A green and black poison frog, Dendrobates auratus

Costus speciosus, a marsh plant, Guadeloupe.

An Atlantic ghost crab (Ocypode quadrata) in Martinique.

Crescentia cujete, or calabash fruit, Martinique.

Thalassoma bifasciatum (bluehead wrasse fish), over Bispira brunnea (social feather duster worms).

Two Stenopus hispidus (banded cleaner shrimp) on a Xestospongia muta (giant barrel sponge).

A pair of Cyphoma signatum (fingerprint cowry), off coastal Haiti.

The Martinique amazon, Amazona martinicana, is an extinct species of parrot in the family Psittacidae.

Anastrepha suspensa, a Caribbean fruit fly.

Hemidactylus mabouia, a tropical gecko, in Dominica Edited by: Taniya Brooks.

Precolombian languages of the Antilles.Ciboney Taíno, Classic Taíno, and Iñeri were Arawakan, Karina and Yao were Cariban. Macorix, Ciguayo and Guanahatabey are unclassified.

The Battle of the Saintes between British and French fleets in 1782, by Nicholas Pocock

The mostly Spanish-controlled Caribbean in the 18th century

These languages were spoken by the Indians who came as immigrants to the Caribbean from India as indentured laborers.

- Caribbean Hindustani

On the mainland, Belize, Nicaragua, the Caribbean region of Colombia, Cozumel, the Yucatán Peninsula, Margarita Island, and the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Guayana Region in Venezuela, and Amapá in Brazil) are often included due to their political and cultural ties with the region.

- Caribbean

The language has also borrowed many words from Dutch and English in Suriname and Guyana, and English and French in Trinidad and Tobago.

- Caribbean Hindustani

It is part of the mainland Caribbean region maintaining strong cultural, historical, and political ties with other Caribbean countries as well as serving as the headquarters for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

- Guyana

Guyanese Hindustani is spoken by the older generation of the Indo-Guyanese community, but younger Guyanese use English or Guyanese Creole.

- Guyana

Other languages such as Caribbean Hindustani, Chinese, Javanese, Arabic, Hmong, Amerindian languages, other African languages, other European languages, and other Indian languages can also be found.

- Caribbean