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Mauritian Creole is the lingua franca of the Republic of Mauritius, which gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1968. Both English and French are used as alternatives to Mauritian Creole. English is spoken primarily for administration and educational purposes and French is used by the media and as a second language.
The Mauritian Creole language is very similar to other French Creole or Kreol languages in the Mascarene islands such as Reunion Creole and Seychellois Creole. These creoles languages are mutually intelligible and speakers are able to cross islands and speak with little difficulty.
Mauritians (singular Mauritian; French: Mauricien; Creole: Morisien) are nationals or natives of the Republic of Mauritius and their descendants. Mauritius is a melting pot of multi-ethnic , multi-cultural and multi-religious peoples.
The English word creole derives from the French créole, which in turn came from Portuguese crioulo, a diminutive of cria meaning a person raised in one's house.Cria is derived from criar, meaning "to raise or bring up", itself derived from the Latin creare, meaning "to make, bring forth, produce, beget"; which is also the source of the English word "create".
This category delineates the eminent people of Mauritius who are of Creole ethnic origins. Pages in category "Mauritian Creoles" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
A creole language is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages. Unlike a pidgin, a simplified form that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups, a creole language is a complete language, used in a community and acquired by children as their native language.
Mauritian Creole-language writers (1 C, 1 P) T. Translators to Mauritian Creole (2 P) Pages in category "Mauritian Creole" The following 7 pages are in this category ...
Rodriguan Creole is a dialect of Mauritian Creole, a French-based creole language, spoken on the island of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean.It is spoken by virtually all 40,000 inhabitants of the island.