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.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Mauritian Creole canonical 14
Mauritian Creoles 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf French-based creole
creole language
natural language
developedFrom French of the colonial period
developedInCentury 18th century
developedInContext French colonial plantation society in Mauritius
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 language
surface form: Portuguese

other South Asian languages
hasISO639-3Code mfe
hasLanguageCodeType ISO 639
surface form: ISO 639-3
hasLanguageFamily French-based creole
hasMorphologyType analytic
hasOfficialRecognitionIn Mauritius
hasPrimaryLexifier French
hasRegulatingBody Akademi Kreol Repiblik Moris
hasRole lingua franca of Mauritius
marker of Mauritian cultural identity
hasStandardOrthography yes
hasStatus national language (de facto)
hasTypicalWordOrder SVO
hasWritingSystem Latin script
isMostWidelySpokenLanguageIn Mauritius
isRelatedTo Rodriguan Creole
Réunion Creole
Seychellois Creole
spokenInCountry Mauritius
spokenInRegion Indian Ocean
Mascarene Islands
subclassOf French-based creole language
Indo-European language family
surface form: 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 (15)

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

French influenced Mauritian Creole
Mauritius nationalLanguage Mauritian Creole
Seychellois Creole closelyRelatedTo Mauritian Creole
Indo-Mauritians language Mauritian Creole
Port Louis commonLanguage Mauritian Creole
Mascarene Islands hasLanguageUsage Mauritian Creole
Réunion Creole closelyRelatedTo Mauritian Creole
Mauritian rupee languageOfName Mauritian Creole
Franco-Mauritian language Mauritian Creole
Creole alsoKnownAs Mauritian Creole
subject surface form: Creole (Mauritius)
this entity surface form: Mauritian Creoles
Creole languageSpoken Mauritian Creole
subject surface form: Creole (Mauritius)
French Creole includesLanguage Mauritian Creole
Indian Ocean French Creole hasPart Mauritian Creole
Kreol Morisien alternativeName Mauritian Creole