Morisyen

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Morisyen

Spoken in

Mauritius
speaker 600,000 to 1.2 million depending on the counting method
Linguistic
classification
Language codes
ISO 639 -2

cpf (common language code)

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
Nou Papa ki dan lesiel

Fer rekonet ki to nom sin,
Fer ki to regn vini,
Fer to volonte akonpli,
Lor later kouma dan lesiel.
Donn nou azordi dipin ki nou bizin.
Pardonn-nou nou bann ofans,
Kouma nou ousi pardonn lezot
ki finn ofans nou.
Pa les nou tom dan tantasion
Me tir nou depi lemal.

 Notre Père qui es aux cieux!

Que ton nom soit sanctifié;
que ton règne vienne;
que ta volonté soit faite
sur la terre comme au ciel.
Donne-nous aujourd'hui notre pain quotidien;
pardonne-nous nos offenses,
comme nous aussi nous pardonnons à ceux
qui nous ont offenses;
ne nous induis pas en tentation,
mais délivre-nous du malin.

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