Language · Indo-European
Morisyen
kreol morisien – its own name
Listed in 1 country. A creole whose vocabulary comes mainly from French.
Endangerment: not endangered according to Glottolog (AES, CC BY 4.0)
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 1.2 million
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Latin
Place in the family tree
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Italic
- Latino-Faliscan
- Latinic
- Imperial Latin
- Romance
- Italo-Western Romance
- Western Romance
- Shifted Western Romance
- Northwestern Shifted Romance
- Gallo-Rhaetian
- Oil
- Central Oil
- Macro-French
- Isle-de-France Creole
- Morisyen
Nodes of the Glottolog tree (Glottolog, CC BY 4.0).
Where it is spoken
- Widely used 1
Widely used
- Mauritius 90% 1.2 million