Rodriguan Creole is a dialect of Mauritian Creole, a French-based creole language, spoken on the island of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean. It is spoken by virtually all of the inhabitants of the island. On Rodrigues, like in the rest of the republic of Mauritius, English is the administrative language and French is also widely spoken, even more commonly than English. Rodriguan Creole is very similar to French, which is why it is sometimes called a dialect of French.

Glossary

Literature

• C. Corne und P. Stein: Pour une étude du créole rodriguais. In: Etudes Créoles Paris , 1979, vol. 2, no. 1, S. 58–84.

• Henri Wittmann: Les parlers créoles des Mascareignes : une orientation. Travaux linguistiques de l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 1. 3e version revue, Trois-Rivières 1972.

References

See also

• Creole language

• Agalega creole

• Mauritian Creole

• Chagossian Creole