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Mauritian Creole and Language Attitudes in the Education System of Multiethnic and Multilingual Mauritius
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Rajah-Carrim, Aaliya – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2007
Mauritius is a multilingual postcolonial island of the Indian Ocean. Although the French-lexified creole, Mauritian Creole/Kreol, is the native language of 70% of the Mauritian population, it is excluded from the education system. Kreol lacks prestige because it is seen as broken French and associated with the local Creoles, a socioeconomically…
Descriptors: Creoles, Reputation, Language Usage, Language Attitudes
A Discussion of Language Tables from the 2000 Population Census of Mauritius.
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Rajah-Carrim, Aaliya – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 2003
Twelve languages, including the two prestigious colonial languages, English and French, a French-based creole, and "ancestral" languages such as Hindi and Mandarin are spoken on the multiethnic island Mauritius. Given the multilingual, multiethnic nature of the nation, linguistic practices are an important way for Mauritians to assert or…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Creoles, English, Foreign Countries
Language Use and Attitudes in Mauritius on the Basis of the 2000 Population Census
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Rajah-Carrim, Aaliya – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
Twelve languages--including the two prestigious colonial languages, English and French, a French-based creole and "ancestral" languages, such as Hindi and Mandarin--are spoken on the multiethnic island Mauritius. Given the multilingual and multiethnic nature of the nation, linguistic practices are an important way for Mauritians to…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Creoles, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries