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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.
Included in the Indo-Mauritian community are Hindus (48.5% of the Mauritian population) and Muslims (17.2%) from the Indian subcontinent. The Franco-Mauritian elite controlled nearly all of the large sugar estates and was active in business and banking. As the Indian population became numerically dominant after independence from British rule ...
While kreol morisien (Mauritian Creole) is the most spoken language on in Mauritius, most of the literature is written in French, although many authors write in English, Bhojpuri, and Morisien (Mauritian Creole), and others such as Abhimanyu Unnuth in Hindi. Mauritius's renowned playwright Dev Virahsawmy writes exclusively in Morisyen.
This category delineates the eminent people of Mauritius who are of Creole ethnic origins. ... This page was last edited on 8 January 2024, at 06:56 (UTC).
Mauritian Creole (2 C, 6 P) S. Seychellois Creole (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "French-based pidgins and creoles" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of ...
On Rodrigues, like in the rest of the republic of Mauritius, English is the administrative language and French is also widely spoken, even more commonly than English. Public warning in the Rodriguan variety of Mauritian Creole in Port Mathurin ( pas zet salte ici : don't throw any litter here)
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 ...