Meanings
- Synonym of Seychellois Creole; a creole language spoken in the Seychelles
In January 1982, the Republic of Seychelles became the first country to make its Creole, Seselwa, an official medium of instruction in its multilingual education system.
2018 [2017 July 18], Christina Tamaa Fleischmann Schwarz, I. M. Nick, ““Mon respe tou lezot lalang!”: a case study of native teacher attitudes towards Creole-mediated multilingual education in Seychelles”, in Current Issues in Language Planning, volume 19, number 2, Routledge, →DOI, →ISSN, page 1832 more examples
A systematic evaluation compared the scores of the 1986 grade 6 (the last class prior to the introduction of Seselwa as the medium of instruction) with those of the 1987 grade 6, first to be taught through Seselwa.
1993, Jeff Siegel, “Pidgins and Creoles in Education in Australia and the Southwest Pacific”, in Francis Byrne, John Holm, editors, Atlantic meets Pacific: a global view of Pidginization and creolization (selected papers from the Society for Pidigin and Creole Linguistics (Creole Language Library), volume 11, Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, via Google Books, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 305The Seychelles has three official languages: English, French, and Seselwa, the native Seychelloise Creole. Most Victorians speak Seselwa at home, but English and French are used for administrative purposes and commercial transactions, and are widely spoken.
2010 June 2, M. Lee, “Victoria, Republic of Seychelles”, in Our World: Seychelles, Great Neck Publishing, via EBSCOhost, →DOI, →ISBNSynonyms: Kreol Seselwa, Seychellois Creole
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Seychellois Creole; a creole language spoken in the Seychelles
Origin
- Frenchseychellois
- Seychellois Creoleseselwa
- EnglishSeselwa
From Seychellois Creole seselwa, from French seychellois. Doublet of Seychellois.
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Seselwa. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Seselwa
“Seselwa.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Seselwa. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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