Morisyen
Morisyen | ||
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Spoken in |
Mauritius | |
speaker | 600,000 to 1.2 million depending on the counting method | |
Linguistic classification |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639 -2 |
cpf (common language code) |
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ISO 639-3 |
mfe |
Morisyen is the French- based Creole language in Mauritius .
80.5% of the population (2000 census), around one million people, speak Morisyen as their mother tongue . The rest of the population of Mauritius speaks Mauritian Creole as a second or lingua franca .
Morisyen is closely related to the Creole languages of the Seychelles ( Seselwa ) and Réunion and therefore belongs to the Bourbonnais Creole family . Typical is the replacement of voiceless and voiced sh by the corresponding s sound. The sounds ö and ü are rounded off, i.e. to e and i. The nasalization remains.
Speech sample
The Lord's Prayer is given here as a language sample :
Creole | French |
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Nou Papa ki dan lesiel Fer rekonet ki to nom sin, |
Notre Père qui es aux cieux! Que ton nom soit sanctifié; |