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The Origin Of Mauritian Creole

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Creole Language is often considered to be a pidgin, simply because it is a mixture of different languages. Looking at it from a Mauritian perspective, the term “creole” itself constitute of a lot of ambiguities as it can also refer to a specific group of people. My analysis will focus on the origin of Mauritian Creole, the different changes it underwent and where does Creole stand today in the life of Mauritians.
Before looking at the impact of borrowing upon the Mauritian Creole, it is better to have a look at the history of Mauritian language. Mauritian Creole began with the arrival of the French settlers in the start of the Eighteenth Century. During that time, slaves were brought from countries like Africa, Madagascar amongst others. Consequently, there was a mass of slaves and there was no common language to communicate in. Choy in his book Korek !(2014) points out that those people needed a “working language” to be able to communicate and this might explain why they adopted the French Language. Later, the Mauritian Creole went through a lot changes. Today, the situation of the Mauritian Language is very complex; English is the official language used in Parliaments or Schools, French is extensively (and often incorrectly ) used by the mass media and as statistics reveal that around eighty percent of newspapers are written in French, Bhojpuri is still used in many parts of the Island and finally Mauritian Creole is the Mother tongue of Mauritians.
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