Kreol

Be careful with rabbit fish, or kordonye as it is called in Kreol; this is to be avoided if you have high blood pressure.

1996, Sarah Carpin, edited by Rebecca Ridolfo, Seychelles, Hong Kong: The Guidebook Company, via Internet Archive, →ISBN, page 73

With independence in 1976, and the subsequent coup d’état in 1977, the status of Kreol improved, and it began its journey towards becoming an official language with a role in administration, culture and education.

2015, Mats Deutschmann, Justin Zelime, ““I used to like writing in Kreol but now I only use English”: an exploratory study of language attitudes and examination performance among primary and secondary school pupils in the Seychelles”, in Island Studies, volume 1, number 2, University of Seychelles, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2024, page 38

In Mauritius, Kreol has over the last one-and-a-half centuries or so proved capable in practice of uniting otherwise very diverse groups into a reasonably homogenous linguistic group.

1990 January 28, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, “Linguistic diversity and the quest for national identity: the case of Mauritius”, in Ethnic & Racial Studies, volume 13, number 1, Routledge, →DOI, →ISSN, page 15

According to the 2011 Housing and Population Census of Mauritius, the European languages, English and French, are the claimed home languages of 0.5% and 4.3% of the population, respectively. [...] Conversely, 86% of the population claim Kreol, a French based creole born locally as a result of the language contact situation, as their home language.

2016 March 15, Sanju Unjore, A.M. Auleear Owodally, “Shifting Language Loyalties: A Case Study of Sunni Mauritian Muslims”, in Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, volume 36, number 1, Routledge, →DOI, →ISSN, page 107