Morisien

English

Etymology

From Mauritian Creole morisien, from French mauricien.

Proper noun

Morisien

  1. Synonym of Mauritian Creole; a French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius.
    • 2007, Peter Hawkins, edited by Valérie Orlando, The Other Hybrid Archipelago: Introduction to the Literatures and Cultures of the Fraancophone Indian Ocean (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France), Lexington Books, via Internet Archive, →ISBN, page 170:
      The earliest plays and poetry in morisien by Dev Virahsawmy date from this period, as do the earliest song lyrics by Daanyel Waro, Gilbert Pounia and the Ziskakan collective in Reunion.
    • 2013, Michael Walling, “Shakespeares – a Discussion”, in Jane Plastow, editor, Shakespeare in & out of Africa (African Theatre; 12), James Currey, via Internet Archive, →ISBN, page 85:
      The Mauritian Machbet had nine witches, three speaking English, three speaking French and three speaking Morisien, plus lots of passages in Morisien when its use reflected social realities.
    • 2024, Joel Riven Rajnhrec, “Speech-to-text model for keyword spotting applications in the Papiamento language”, in Eric Mijts, Jocelyn Ballantyne, Carlos Rodriguez, editors, UAUCU Student Research Exchange: Collected Papers 2024, University of Aruba; University College Utrecht, via Internet Archive, page 93:
      Macaire et al. (2022) investigated the use of self-supervised models for two low-resource Creole languages, Gwadloupéyen and Morisien.
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