Languages spoken in MAURITIUS?

Question

Is that all?

Answer 1

Languages of Mauritius

Mauritius. 1,220,481. Ethnically 685,170 or 69% of the population from India. National or official languages: English, French. Includes Rodrigues; 4 islands. Literacy rate: 90% to 94%. Also includes Eastern Panjabi (26,000), Gujarati (3,336), Hakka Chinese (35,000), Mandarin Chinese, Marathi (11,787), Telugu (10,675), Yue Chinese.

The number of languages listed for Mauritius is 6. Of those, all are living languages.

Living languages

Bhojpuri [bho] 336,000 in Mauritius (2001 Johnstone and Mandryk). Urban and rural areas. Dialects: Mauritian Bhojpuri, Bojpury.  Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Eastern zone, Bihari  



English [eng] 3,000 in Mauritius (1993 Johnstone).  Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English  



French [fra] 37,000 in Mauritius.  Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, Oïl, French  



Morisyen [mfe] 600,000 in Mauritius (1989). Population total all countries: 604,000. Also spoken in Madagascar. Alternate names: Mauritius Creole French, Kreole, Kreol, Mauritian, Maurysen.  Dialects: Rodrigues Creole. Closer to French creoles of the Caribbean than to Réunion Creole (Philip Baker). Nearly identical to Rodrigues.  Classification: Creole, French based  





Tamil [tam] 31,000 in Mauritius (2001 Johnstone and Mandryk).  Classification: Dravidian, Southern, Tamil-Kannada, Tamil-Kodagu, Tamil-Malayalam, Tamil  



Urdu [urd] 64,000 in Mauritius (1993 Johnstone).  Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Western Hindi, Hindustani

Answer 2

The official languages are English and French (with French being the most dominant), the most commonly used are Creole (pidgin French with other languages added to the mix), Hindi and Bhojpuri. Urdu and Chinese are also spoken.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

According to the CIA, the major language spoken is Creole (with 80.5% of the population). This is followed by Bhojpuri (an indian dialect) at 12.1%, French at 3.4%, and English (which is the official language but ironically has less than 1% of the population that speaks it).

Answer 5

There are many different language that are spoken in Mauritius...Mauritian Creole, French, English, Hindi, Bojhpuri, Tamil, Telegu, Marathi, Urdu and even some chinese

But the most common are Mauritian Creole and French....if u know any of these 2 language you'll be able to have a proper conversation with about 90% of our population