Mauritian Creole
E86042
Mauritian Creole is a French-based creole language spoken primarily in Mauritius, serving as the country’s most widely used lingua franca and a key marker of its cultural identity.
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French-based creole
→
creole language → natural language → |
| developedFrom |
French of the colonial period
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| developedInCentury |
18th century
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|
| developedInContext |
French colonial plantation society in Mauritius
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|
| hasAlternativeName |
Kreol Morisien
→
Mauritian → Morisien → Morisyen → |
| hasFeature |
little inflectional morphology
→
tense-aspect-mood marked by preverbal particles → |
| hasGlottocode |
maur1410
→
|
| hasInfluenceFromLanguage |
Bhojpuri
→
East African languages → English → Malagasy → Portuguese → other South Asian languages → |
| hasISO639-3Code |
mfe
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|
| hasLanguageCodeType |
ISO 639-3
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|
| hasLanguageFamily |
French-based creole
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|
| hasMorphologyType |
analytic
→
|
| hasOfficialRecognitionIn |
Mauritius
→
|
| hasPrimaryLexifier |
French
→
|
| hasRegulatingBody |
Akademi Kreol Repiblik Moris
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|
| hasRole |
lingua franca of Mauritius
→
marker of Mauritian cultural identity → |
| hasStandardOrthography |
yes
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|
| hasStatus |
national language (de facto)
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|
| hasTypicalWordOrder |
SVO
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|
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin script
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| isMostWidelySpokenLanguageIn |
Mauritius
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|
| isRelatedTo |
Rodriguan Creole
→
Réunion Creole → Seychellois Creole → |
| spokenInCountry |
Mauritius
→
|
| spokenInRegion |
Indian Ocean
→
Mascarene Islands → |
| subclassOf |
French-based creole language
→
Indo-European languages → |
| usedByEthnicGroup |
Mauritians of African descent
→
Mauritians of Chinese descent → Mauritians of European descent → Mauritians of Indian descent → |
| usedInDomain |
everyday communication
→
informal education → literature → media → music → |
Referenced by (5)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Seychellois Creole
→
|
closelyRelatedTo |
|
Port Louis
→
|
commonLanguage |
|
French
→
|
influenced |
|
Indo-Mauritians
→
|
language |
|
Mauritius
→
|
nationalLanguage |