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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