Languages of Mauritius
[See also SIL publications on the languages of Mauritius.]Mauritius. 1,241,000. Ethnically 685,170 or 69% of the population from India. National or official languages: English, French. Includes Rodrigues; 4 islands. Literacy rate: 90%–94%. Immigrant languages: Eastern Panjabi (26,000), Gujarati (3,340), Hakka Chinese (35,000), Mandarin Chinese, Marathi (11,800), Telugu (10,700), Yue Chinese. Information mainly from P. Baker 1972; P. Baker and R. Ramnak 1985; R. Barz and J. Siegel 1988; T. Eriksen 1990. Blind population: 250. Deaf institutions: 2. The number of individual languages listed for Mauritius is 6. Of those, all are living languages.
| Bhojpuri | [bho]
336,000 in Mauritius (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001). Urban and rural.
Dialects: Mauritian Bhojpuri, Bojpury.
Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Eastern zone, Bihari
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| English | [eng]
3,000 in Mauritius (Johnstone 1993).
Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English
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| French | [fra]
37,000 in Mauritius.
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, Oïl, French
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| Morisyen | [mfe]
800,000 in Mauritius (2005). Population total all countries: 806,000. Also in France, Madagascar, United Kingdom.
Alternate names: Kreol, Kreole, Mauritian, Mauritius Creole French, Maurysen.
Dialects: Rodrigues Creole. More similar to French creoles of the Caribbean than to Réunion Creole (Baker 1972).
Classification: Creole, French based
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| Tamil | [tam]
31,000 in Mauritius (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001).
Classification: Dravidian, Southern, Tamil-Kannada, Tamil-Kodagu, Tamil-Malayalam, Tamil
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| Urdu | [urd]
64,000 in Mauritius (Johnstone 1993).
Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Western Hindi, Hindustani
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