Kreol Seselwa

E220587

Kreol Seselwa is a French-based Creole language spoken primarily in the Seychelles and recognized as one of the country’s national languages.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Kreol Seselwa canonical 2
Kreol 1
Seselwa Creole French 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Creole language
French-based Creole
natural language
developedFrom French of the 18th century
developedInContextOf French colonial period in Seychelles
hasAlternativeName Kreol Seselwa
surface form: Kreol

Seychellois Creole
surface form: Seselwa Creole French

Seychellois Creole
surface form: Seychelles Creole

Seychellois Creole
hasAnalyticGrammar true
hasCulturalEvent Festival Kreol in Seychelles
hasGlottocode seyc1239
hasISO639-2Code crs
hasISO639-3Code crs
hasLanguageRegulator Lenstiti Kreol (Creole Institute of Seychelles)
surface form: Lenstiti Kreol (Seychelles Creole Institute)
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom East African languages
English
French
Indic languages
Malagasy
hasOfficialStatusIn Seychelles
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom French
hasStandardOrthography true
hasSVOOrder true
hasTenseAspectMarkers true
isCoOfficialWith English
French
isLanguageOf Seychellois identity
isNationalLanguageOf Seychelles
isSubjectOf Creole studies
isTaughtIn schools in Seychelles
languageFamily Creole
French Creole
primaryLexifierLanguage French
recognizedSince 1970s
region East Africa
Indian Ocean
spokenIn La Digue
Mahé
Praslin
Seychelles
usedAs lingua franca in Seychelles
usedIn education in Seychelles
government communication in Seychelles
literature in Seychelles
media in Seychelles
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Seychellois Creole alsoKnownAs Kreol Seselwa
Seychellois Creole hasGlottologName Kreol Seselwa
this entity surface form: Seselwa Creole French
Seychellois Creole hasNativeName Kreol Seselwa
Kreol Seselwa hasAlternativeName Kreol Seselwa
this entity surface form: Kreol
Lenstiti Kreol (Creole Institute of Seychelles) hasMainSubject Kreol Seselwa
subject surface form: Lenstiti Kreol
this entity surface form: Seychellois Creole