Rodriguan Creole
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Rodriguan Creole is a dialect of Mauritian Creole
spoken on the island of Rodrigues
in the Indian Ocean
. The total number of speakers is estimated at 40,000. On the island of Rodrigues, like in the rest of the republic of Mauritius
, English is the official language and French is also spoken.
Mauritian Creole
Mauritian Creole is a French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius. In addition to the French base of the language, there are also some words from English and from the many African and Asian languages that have been spoken on the island.- Sociolinguistic Situation :Mauritian Creole is the...
spoken on the island of Rodrigues
Rodrigues (island)
Rodrigues , sometimes spelled Rodriguez but named after the Portuguese explorer Diogo Rodrigues, is the smallest of the Mascarene Islands and a dependency of Mauritius...
in the Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...
. The total number of speakers is estimated at 40,000. On the island of Rodrigues, like in the rest of the republic of Mauritius
Mauritius
Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...
, English is the official language and French is also spoken.