Question

What is the official language in Guyana, on the South American mainland and on the southern limits of the Caribbean?
A) French
B) English
C) German
D) Russian

Answer 1

Hint: Georgetown is the capital of Guyana, which is located on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is surrounded on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south and southwest by Brazil, on the west by Venezuela, and on the east by Suriname. After Uruguay and Suriname, Guyana is the third-smallest sovereign state in mainland South America in terms of area.

Complete answer:
Now let us analyze the given options:
Option A) This is not the correct option because Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, France, and other countries use French as their official language.
Option B) This is the correct option because Guyana is South America's only English-speaking country. Guyana's natural resources, particularly its pristine rainforests, sugarcane plantations, rice fields, and bauxite and gold reserves, have been the country's key economic assets since its independence in 1966.
Although Indians are spread throughout the forested interior, Guyana's population is primarily of colonial heritage. Slaves from Africa and indentured servants from India, who were first imported to work the coastal sugarcane plantations, make up the majority of the coastal peoples. Ethnic conflict between the last two groups has wreaked havoc on Guyanese society.
Option C) This is not the correct option because the German language is the official language of Germany and Austria, as well as one of Switzerland's official languages. German is a member of the Indo-European language family's West Germanic group.
Option D) This is not the correct option because Russian is the official language of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, and is widely spoken as a lingua franca in Ukraine, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and, to a lesser extent, the Baltic states.

Thus the correct answer is option ‘B’ i.e, English is the official language in Guyana, on the South American mainland and on the southern limits of the Caribbean.

Note: Guyana has been a Commonwealth member since 1970. Politically, however, Guyana followed a steady path toward communism from independence until the death of the first prime minister, Forbes Burnham, in 1985, following which the country's ties with Western powers were improved and privatisation began in the 1990s.