Kreol Morisien

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Kreol Morisien is a French-based Creole language spoken primarily in Mauritius and serves as the country’s most widely used lingua franca.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Kreol Morisien canonical 3
Kreol 1
Kreol Morisyen 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Creole language
French-based Creole
natural language
alternativeName Kreol Morisien
surface form: Kreol

Kreol Morisien
surface form: Kreol Morisyen

Mauritian Creole
Morisyen
closelyRelatedTo Rodriguan Creole
Réunion Creole
Seychellois Creole
countryOrRegionOfOrigin Mauritius
derivedFrom French of the 17th and 18th centuries
developedDuring French colonial period in Mauritius
glottologCode maur1410
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
Bhojpuri
Chinese languages
English
Hindi
Tamil NERFINISHED
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
hasStandardizationEffort grammar description
orthography development
hasStandardOrthography true
hasSubstrateLanguage East African languages
English
Indian languages
Malagasy
ISO639-3Code mfe
languageFamily French Creole
languageOf Mauritian identity
officialStatus national language of Mauritius
primaryLexifierLanguage French
regulatingBody Akademi Kreol Repiblik Moris
surface form: Akademi Kreol Morisien
spokenIn Mauritian diaspora communities
Mauritius
Rodrigues Island
surface form: Rodrigues
typologicalFeature SVO word order
analytic morphology
no case inflection
no grammatical gender
usedAs lingua franca
usedAsMediumOfInstruction some Mauritian schools
usedIn education
everyday communication in Mauritius
literature
media
music
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (6)

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

Mauritian Creole hasAlternativeName Kreol Morisien
Patois alternativeName Kreol Morisien
this entity surface form: Kweyol
Kreol Morisien alternativeName Kreol Morisien
this entity surface form: Kreol
Kreol Morisien alternativeName Kreol Morisien
this entity surface form: Kreol Morisyen
Morisyen hasAlternativeName Kreol Morisien
Morisien alternativeName Kreol Morisien