Afrikaan Creole Summary

Croele is basically a language that, in most cases, was formed by combining many other languages to form a new spoken language. There are many forms of Creole, such as Haitian Creole, Lousiana Creole French, Krio language Pidgin and Mauritian Creole, which my partner and I decided to explore. My partner, Ebrahim Behardien and I chose Mauritian Creole because of its unique nature and rich history. We researched its origin and liked the idea of it. Ebrahim speaks English, Afrikaans and German while I speak English, Afrikaans and a bit of Urdu. However, we struggled to find written forms of it due to it mainly being a spoken language. Thus, we set out to seek assistance. Tasneem Allybokus, one of my close friends, is a native Mauritian Creole

From an anthropological point of view this is odd because of the lack cultural similarities between Mauritius and the Caribbean Islands. He states that both have a postposed definite article, the article fek derived from the French fait que which means ‘just now’. Both have the preverbal article ape which comes from the French word apres. He also notes that verb serialisation and predicate clefting is practically non-existent in Mauritian Creole. Other than these similarities, there are also preverbal particles indicating tenses and modalities present. It should be kept in mind that nouns, in Mauritian Creole, do not change form, even when in plural. This can exclusively be determined by context. Also, there is only one form for every pronoun. These facts are vital when attempting to translate from Creole to English or from English to

This is in reference to Mauiritius’ tourism-based economy and the large amount of peanut sellers present in the area. The humour, however, is lost in translation because we do not really have many peanut sellers in South Africa. It can be noted that the word ‘touriste’ is clearly a word derived from the modern English word ‘tourist’. Also, the word ‘pistache’ comes from the Old French word ‘pistace’ which is where the modern English word ‘pistachio’ comes