Morisyen

English

Etymology

From Mauritian Creole morisyen, from French mauricien. Doublet of Mauritian.

Proper noun

Morisyen

  1. Synonym of Mauritian Creole; a French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius.
    • 1992, Richard S. Pittman, Joseph E. Grimes, editors, Ethnologue, 12th edition, Dallas, Texas: Summer Institue of Linguistcs, via Internet Archive, →ISBN, page 304:
      69% of poulation is from India but some speak Urdu, Tamil, or Morisyen
    • 2005, Farhad Abdool Kader Sulliman Khoyratty, “Compass – Or How Grandpa Conquered the West”, in African Compass: New writing from southern Africa‎[1], Spearhead, via Internet Archive, →ISBN, page 15:
      I saw Carmencita. I called her. She replied, in Morisyen, in only one composite, writhing exclamation[.]
    • 2014 June, Anand Syea, “Adult input and children’s acquisition of Creole syntax”, in English Today, volume 30, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, page 61:
      Furthermore, the claim that they lack a conventional language model is at odds with the fact that Seselwa and Morisyen became full-fledged languages in the late 1700s[.]
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