Bottom line is that despite the low key tribal warfare that we have in Guyana there is much cultural interchange and adaptation in our foods, language, etc. To the point where we often don't even know the origins of some of this.
For instance the word "jook" which every Caribbean person knows. Some attribute it to English origins and others to West African. One thing though is I don't think that English people use that word anymore. The word "deh" has connections to one of the Nigerian languages, I think Igbo. That is in some one saying " he deh over dere".
Also when you want to emphasize a word we repeat it as in "he too stupidee, stupidee". Again West African grammar using English connected words, though how many of us know this. Its a Ghanaian who told me the West African origins when I used it once. He laughed and told me that he knew fully well that I didn't know how African it was.