Meanings
- Synonym of Mauritian Creole; a French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius.
Macaire et al. (2022) investigated the use of self-supervised models for two low-resource Creole languages, Gwadloupéyen and Morisien.
2024, Joel Riven Rajnhrec, “Speech-to-text model for keyword spotting applications in the Papiamento language”, in Eric Mijts, Jocelyn Ballantyne, Carlos Rodriguez, editors, UAUCU Student Research Exchange: Collected Papers 2024, University of Aruba; University College Utrecht, via Internet Archive, page 932 more examples
The earliest plays and poetry in morisien by Dev Virahsawmy date from this period, as do the earliest song lyrics by Daanyel Waro, Gilbert Pounia and the Ziskakan collective in Reunion.
2007, Peter Hawkins, edited by Valérie Orlando, The Other Hybrid Archipelago: Introduction to the Literatures and Cultures of the Fraancophone Indian Ocean (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France), Lexington Books, via Internet Archive, →ISBN, page 170The Mauritian Machbet had nine witches, three speaking English, three speaking French and three speaking Morisien, plus lots of passages in Morisien when its use reflected social realities.
2013, Michael Walling, “Shakespeares – a Discussion”, in Jane Plastow, editor, Shakespeare in & out of Africa (African Theatre; 12), James Currey, via Internet Archive, →ISBN, page 85Synonyms: Mauritian Creole
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Mauritian Creole; a French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius.
Origin
- Frenchmauricien
- Mauritian Creolemorisien
- EnglishMorisien
From Mauritian Creole morisien, from French mauricien.
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Cite this entry
Morisien. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Morisien
“Morisien.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Morisien. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Morisien,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Morisien.
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