mauritian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.15 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture.
name
Example Sentences
- "One of the official languages of Mauritius is Mauritian Creole."
- "Like the Irish, the Mauritians were alien to the English in race, culture and religion."
- "However, Baker (pc) notes that limero is also a common Mauritian pronunciation."
- "The are two perspectives on the relationship between Réunionnais, a semicreole, and Mauritian, a typical plantation creole. Baker and Corne (1982) argue that […] Mauritian is the product of a break in the transmission of French, […]"
- "2001, Robert Chaudenson, Salikoko S. Mufwene, and Sheri Pargman, Creolization of Language and Culture (English edition of Robert Chaudenson, Des îles, des hommes, des langues), Routledge, →ISBN, page 47, Much later, Richardson (1963) posits a theory very similar to Jespersen’s, claiming that the [grammatical] system of Mauritian has resulted from the contact of very different systems (French, Malagasy, and Bantu), which allegedly could not merge together because of excessive heterogeneity, but neutralized each other instead."
Etymology
From Mauritius + -an.