Chagos Creole
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Spoken in |
Mauritius , Seychelles | |
| speaker | 3,000 | |
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Tschagos Creole (also Kreol Ilois or just Ilois ) is a Creole language based on French, which is spoken by the approx. 3000 Chagossians , the former inhabitants of the Tschagos archipelago . It originated around 1900 on the isolated archipelago. Currently it is mainly spoken in Mauritius and the Seychelles . There is also a small group of speakers in the UK .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ilois Trust Online ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
