kreol
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Synonym of Seychellois Creole; a French-based creole language spoken in the Seychelles.
Example Sentences
- "Be careful with rabbit fish, or kordonye as it is called in Kreol; this is to be avoided if you have high blood pressure."
- "Presently, Kreol remains the medium of instruction for students from pre-school to primary 2 (aged 3-7)."
- "With independence in 1976, and the subsequent coup d’état in 1977, the status of Kreol improved, and it began its journey towards becoming an official language with a role in administration, culture and education."
- "In Mauritius, Kreol has over the last one-and-a-half centuries or so proved capable in practice of uniting otherwise very diverse groups into a reasonably homogenous linguistic group."
- "As far as Kreol is concerned, it is unquestionably the most widely spoken language among the island’s diverse population groups."
- "According to the 2011 Housing and Population Census of Mauritius, the European languages, English and French, are the claimed home languages of 0.5% and 4.3% of the population, respectively. [...] Conversely, 86% of the population claim Kreol, a French based creole born locally as a result of the language contact situation, as their home language."