Mauritian

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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