Meanings
- Synonym of Mauritian Creole; a French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius.
Being spoken by only about 1.5 million speakers in the world, Kreol Morisien falls in the category of under-resourced languages.
2025 February 10, Zaheenah Beebee Jameela Boodeea, Sameerchand Pudaruth, Nitish Chooramun, Aneerav Sukhoo, “Automatic Translation Between Kreol Morisien and English Using the Marian Machine Translation Framework”, in Zhiwen Yu, editor, Informatics, volume 12, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, →ISSN, page 12 more examples
Or, as the Kreol Morisien saying puts it, in Mauritius, ‘Tu dimunn pu vini kreol’ (everyone is going to become Creole [...])[.]
2010 December 29, Françoise Lionnet, Thomas C. Spear, “Mauritius in/and global culture: politics, literature, visual arts”, in International Journal of Francophone Studies, volume 13, number 3/4, Intellect, →DOI, →ISSN, page 378Above all, Virahsawmy believes that Kreol Morisien (Mauritian Kreol) is the only unifying language for all Mauritius and is often reagarded as the father of the language.
2013, Ashish Beesoondial, “'Sa bezsominn Shakespeare la' – The Brave New World of Dev Virahsawmy”, in Jane Plastow, editor, Shakespeare in & out of Africa (African Theatre; 12), James Currey, via Internet Archive, →ISBN, page 106Synonyms: Mauritian Creole
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Mauritian Creole; a French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius.
Origin
- Frenchcréole mauricien
- Mauritian Creolekreol morisien
- EnglishKreol Morisien
From Mauritian Creole kreol morisien, from French créole mauricien.
More words from Mauritian Creole, French
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Kreol Morisien. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kreol%20Morisien
“Kreol Morisien.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kreol%20Morisien. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Kreol Morisien,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kreol%20Morisien.
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