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Réunion Creole or Reunionese Creole (En), or Créole Réunionnais in French (in Réunion Creole: Kréol Réyoné) is a creole language spoken on Réunion. It is derived mainly from French and a few terms from other languages (Malagasy, Hindi, Portuguese, Gujurati and Tamil).[2] In the recent years, some groups have tried to come up with a spelling dictionary and grammar rules but there is still no official version. Partly because of the lack of an official orthography but also because schools are taught in French, Réunion Creole is rarely written.
Réunion Creole is structurally different from both other French-based creoles and from French. It is a semi-creole, similar in this way to Afrikaans.[3]
[edit] History
It is within the first fifty years of Reunion being inhabited that Reunionese Creole first formed.[2] Most of the people living in Reunion were either French, Malagasy or Indo-Portuguese.[2] Most families at this time had at least one first language French speaker. It is because of this that Reunionnese Creole is not fully a Creole like Mauritian Creole.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Ethnologue report for language code:rcf
- ^ a b c Chaudenson, Robert (1974). Le lexique du parler créole de La Réunion. Paris.
- ^ a b Holm, John. Pidgins and Creoles. Volume II: Reference Survey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
- Gunet, Armand (2003). Le Grand Lexique Créole De l'Ile de la Réunion. Azalées Éditions. ISBN 2913158528.
