Meaning of Mauritian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent.
2. Mauritian Creole.

Equivalents

Examples

“Like the Irish, the Mauritians were alien to the English in race, culture and religion.”

“However, Baker (pc) notes that limero is also a common Mauritian pronunciation.”

“The are two perspectives on the relationship between Réunionnais, a semicreole, and Mauritian, a typical plantation creole. Baker and Corne (1982) argue that […] Mauritian is the product of a break in the transmission of French, […]”

“2001, Robert Chaudenson, Salikoko S. Mufwene, and Sheri Pargman, Creolization of Language and Culture (English edition of Robert Chaudenson, Des îles, des hommes, des langues), Routledge, →ISBN, page 47, Much later, Richardson (1963) posits a theory very similar to Jespersen’s, claiming that the [grammatical] system of Mauritian has resulted from the contact of very different systems (French, Malagasy, and Bantu), which allegedly could not merge together because of excessive heterogeneity, but neutralized each other instead.”

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