Réunion Creole
| Réunion Creole | ||
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Spoken in |
Reunion | |
| speaker | 600,000 | |
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| ISO 639-3 |
rcf |
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Réunion Creole (Creole: Kréol Réyoné / Rénioné also "Réunionnais", on La Réunion itself always just called "Kréol") is a Creole language on Réunion . The base is French, but there are also terms from Malagasy , Hindi , Portuguese , Gujarati and Tamil .
The language is divided into three dialects that merge into one another: Mountain Creole, Lowland Creole and Urban Creole, which is most similar to French.
Louis Héry was a 19th century writer who first wrote in Réunion Creole.
use
Creole is the mother tongue of most of the residents of La Réunion, regardless of the origin of the very mixed population.
Often children do not learn French until they are in school, which presents them with difficulties because the French state does not allow other languages in the education system.
Creole is mainly used in families and friends. In addition, z. B. also the trade in the markets takes place mainly on Creole.
Creole is also used in the traditional genres of Séga and Maloya .
Written language
Attempts to write a dictionary with grammar have not yet resulted in any official publication. French is mostly used as the written language on Réunion.
If Creole is used, the spelling is phonetic. In addition, the C, which is often used in French, is written as S or K, depending on the pronunciation. There are accents above the E and the I (é, ë, ï). C, j, q, u and x are used at most in loanwords.
literature
- Holm, John. Pidgins and Creoles. Volume II: Reference Survey . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
- Marion, Pascal, Dictionnaire étymologique du créole réunionnais, mots d'origine asiatique . Carré de sucre, 2009, ISBN 978-2-9529135-0-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ethnologue report for language code: rcf
- ↑ Robert Chaudenson: Le lexique du parler créole de La Reunion 1974th