- Among these labels are kob skin (or olive skinned), santantone (referring to mixtures of Portuguese and African), dougla (referring to mixtures of East Indian and African), and chinese dougla (referring to mixtures of Chinese and African).
- Of course, some members of all of these racial groups will belong to other religions and denominations.
- Cf. Fambli, ed. Lilith M. Haynes (New York: Church World Service, Planned Parenthood Program, 1972), for a fuller investigation of these factors.
- Insofar as it may be defined, the “lower class” also uses this variety of natural speech.
- The Prime Minister, Forbes Burnham, and the Opposition Leader, Cheddi Jagan, reflect these trends, such that most Guyanese are embarrassed to be represented abroad or disgusted at local speeches by the latter, and even grudgingly satisfied with the former.
- Ministry of Information, Guyana, Guy news, Nov., 1972, p. 1.
- Lilith M. Haynes, “Language in Barbados and Guyana: Attitudes, Behaviours, and Comparisons” (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ., 1973), pp. 52–122.
- The union of the parents is atypical for Guyana (and the hemisphere), where a less educated and lighter complexioned man is married to a professionally trained and dark complexioned woman; the union has been subject to disfavour by relatives of both partners.
- The parents are singled out here because the socialisation of these children was essentially nuclear.
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Volume 27, 1971 - Issue 1-3: Child Language--1975