What is the difference between mauritian and mauritius?
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Of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture.
A person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent.
* 1964 , James Pope-Hennessy, Verandah: Some Episodes in the Crown Colonies: 1867-1889 , G. Allen and Unwin [http://books.google.com/books?id=peqFAAAAIAAJ&q=the+Mauritians&dq=the+Mauritians&pgis=1], 1964, page 258,
Mauritian Creole.
* 1989 , John A. Holm, Pidgins and Creoles: Reference Survey , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521359406, page 401,
* 2000 , , The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages , University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-21999-1, pages 187–188,
* 2001 , , Salikoko S. Mufwene, and Sheri Pargman, Creolization of Language and Culture'' (English edition of Robert Chaudenson, ''Des îles, des hommes, des langues ), Routledge, ISBN 9780415145930, page 47,
Country in the Indian Ocean. Official name: Republic of Mauritius.
Given name; e.g.,
Mauritius is a derived term of mauritian.
As proper nouns the difference between mauritian and mauritius
is that mauritian is mauritian Creole while Mauritius is country in the Indian Ocean. Official name: Republic of Mauritius.As an adjective Mauritian
is of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture.As a noun Mauritian
is a person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent.mauritian
English
Adjective
(-)- ''One of the official languages of Mauritius is Mauritian Creole.
Derived terms
* Mauritian CreoleNoun
(en noun)- Like the Irish, the Mauritians were alien to the English in race, culture and religion.
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- 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
- 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.