Seychelles Creole

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Seychelles Creole

Spoken in

Seychelles
speaker 70,000
Linguistic
classification
Official status
Official language in SeychellesSeychelles Seychelles
Language codes
ISO 639 -2 ( B ) cpf (common language code) ( T ) cpf

Seychelles Creole (sometimes referred to as Seselwa [ seseˈlwa ]) is the French- based Creole language of the Seychelles and is spoken by around 70,000 people. Seychelles Creole is the official language of the Seychelles, along with English and French.

Seychelles Creole is recorded with its own orthography , which is purely phonetic and differs greatly from the rules of French orthography. In addition to general Creole features such as the loss of conjugation endings , gender and number , pronunciation is also simplified insofar as the rounded vowels coincide with the unrounded ones ; So ö becomes e, ü becomes i, and voiced and unvoiced sh coincide with voiced and unvoiced s.

alphabet

Letters used: ABDEFGIKLMNOPRSTUVWYZ

These letters are not used: CHJQX

So these letters were replaced:

  • C was replaced by K (or before E and I by S ).
  • Ç was S replaced.
  • H does not exist.
  • Ch was usually by S replaced.
  • J was replaced by Z for words of French origin and by the letters Dy for words of English origin . Examples: The French word jour means zour in Creole , the English word job means dyob .
  • Qu was replaced by Kw . Example: The English word queen means kween in Creole .
  • X was replaced by Ks . Example: The English word wax means waks in Creole .

Note: U is only in conjunction with O needed. Example: Tou , Nou and Poul .

Text and word examples

Our Father :

Ou, nou papa ki dan lesyel,
Fer ou ganny rekonman Bondye.
Ki ou renny i arive.
Ki ou lavolonte i ganny realize
Lo later parey i ete dan lesyel
Donn nou sak zour nou dipen ki nou bezwen.
Pardonn nou pour banned lofans
Ki noun fer anver ou,
Parey nou pardonn sa ki n ofans nou.
Pa les tantasyon domin nou,
Me tir nou dan lemal.

Numbers from 1 to 10:

1: Enn
2: De
3: Trwa
4: Cat
5: lower
6: Sis
7: set
8: Ywit
9: Nef
10: Dis

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Use of Language (PDF; 29 kB) at: mfa.gov.sc