Seselwa

English

Etymology

From Seychellois Creole seselwa, from French seychellois. Doublet of Seychellois.

Proper noun

Seselwa

  1. Synonym of Seychellois Creole; a creole language spoken in the Seychelles
    • 1993, Jeff Siegel, “Pidgins and Creoles in Education in Australia and the Southwest Pacific”, in Francis Byrne, John Holm, editors, Atlantic meets Pacific: a global view of Pidginization and creolization (selected papers from the Society for Pidigin and Creole Linguistics (Creole Language Library), volume 11, Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, via Google Books, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 305:
      A systematic evaluation compared the scores of the 1986 grade 6 (the last class prior to the introduction of Seselwa as the medium of instruction) with those of the 1987 grade 6, first to be taught through Seselwa.
    • 2010 June 2, M. Lee, “Victoria, Republic of Seychelles”, in Our World: Seychelles‎[1], Great Neck Publishing, via EBSCOhost, →DOI, →ISBN:
      The Seychelles has three official languages: English, French, and Seselwa, the native Seychelloise Creole. Most Victorians speak Seselwa at home, but English and French are used for administrative purposes and commercial transactions, and are widely spoken.
    • 2018 [2017 July 18], Christina Tamaa Fleischmann Schwarz, I. M. Nick, ““Mon respe tou lezot lalang!”: a case study of native teacher attitudes towards Creole-mediated multilingual education in Seychelles”, in Current Issues in Language Planning, volume 19, number 2, Routledge, →DOI, →ISSN, page 183:
      In January 1982, the Republic of Seychelles became the first country to make its Creole, Seselwa, an official medium of instruction in its multilingual education system.
    Synonym: Kreol Seselwa
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