Réunion Creole
| Réunion Creole | |
|---|---|
| Kreol Réyoné | |
| Spoken in |  Réunion |
| Native speakers | 600,000[1] (date missing) |
| Language family |
French Creole
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | rcf |
| Linguasphere | 51-AAC-cf |
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. Notably, two Asterix translations into it have been published.[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.[4]
It is now the native language of 90% of the island's population. [5]
[edit] References
- ^ Réunion Creole at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- ^ a b c Chaudenson, Robert (1974). Le lexique du parler créole de La Réunion. Paris.
- ^ http://www.asterix-obelix.nl/manylanguages/languages.php?lng=gcre
- ^ Holm, John. Pidgins and Creoles. Volume II: Reference Survey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
- ^ http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/document.asp?reg_id=24&ref_id=16941
[edit] Bibliography
- Gunet, Armand (2003). Le Grand Lexique Créole De l'Ile de la Réunion. Azalées Éditions. ISBN 2913158528.
- Marion, Pascal (2009), Dictionnaire étymologique du créole réunionnais, mots d'origine asiatique, Carré de sucre, ISBN 978-2-9529135-0-8
|
|||||||||||
 |
This pidgin and creole language-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
