Kreol Morisien

English

Etymology

From Mauritian Creole kreol morisien, from French créole mauricien.

Proper noun

Kreol Morisien

  1. Synonym of Mauritian Creole; a French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius.
    • 2010 December, Françoise Lionnet, Thomas C. Spear, “Mauritius in/and global culture: politics, literature, visual arts”, in International Journal of Francophone Studies, volume 13, number 3/4, Intellect, →DOI, →ISSN, page 378:
      Or, as the Kreol Morisien saying puts it, in Mauritius, ‘Tu dimunn pu vini kreol’ (everyone is going to become Creole [...])[.]
    • 2013, Ashish Beesoondial, “'Sa bezsominn Shakespeare la' – The Brave New World of Dev Virahsawmy”, in Jane Plastow, editor, Shakespeare in & out of Africa (African Theatre; 12), James Currey, via Internet Archive, →ISBN, page 106:
      Above all, Virahsawmy believes that Kreol Morisien (Mauritian Kreol) is the only unifying language for all Mauritius and is often reagarded as the father of the language.
    • 2025 February 10, Zaheenah Beebee Jameela Boodeea, Sameerchand Pudaruth, Nitish Chooramun, Aneerav Sukhoo, “Automatic Translation Between Kreol Morisien and English Using the Marian Machine Translation Framework”, in Zhiwen Yu, editor, Informatics, volume 12, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, →ISSN, page 1:
      Being spoken by only about 1.5 million speakers in the world, Kreol Morisien falls in the category of under-resourced languages.
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