Rodriguais
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Rodrigues | |
| speaker | 40,000 | |
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Rodriguais is a French- based Creole language spoken on the island of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean , which is politically part of Mauritius . Sometimes it is also considered a dialect of the Morisyen spoken in Mauritius .
The official language in Rodrigues is English , and French is also spoken there.
literature
- C. Corne and P. Stein: Pour une étude du créole rodriguais. In: Etudes Créoles Paris , 1979, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 58-84.
- Henri Wittmann: Les parlers créoles des Mascareignes: une orientation . Travaux linguistiques de l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 1. 3e version revue, Trois-Rivières 1972.