Bhojpuri, Tamil, Chinese, Telugu, Hindi-Urdu, Arabic language
Signed
Mauritian Sign Language
Keyboard layout
QWERTY
Home languages in Mauritius as of 2022 Census[1]
Languages
percent
Creole
90.0%
Bhojpuri
5.1%
French
4.4%
English
0.6%
The Constitution of the Republic of Mauritius does not mention any official language. The Constitution contains one statement in Article 49 that states that "the official language of the Assembly shall be English but any member may address the chair in French" which indicate that English and French are official languages of the National Assembly (parliament) only.
While the lingua franca is Mauritian Creole, French is spoken by a majority of Mauritians while English is used in Government and education.
Both French and English are common languages on signages in Mauritius.
English is used as the prime medium of instruction in public schools while French is also a common language in education and the dominant language of media.[2] According to the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, 72.7% of the Mauritians were French speakers in 2005.[3] Mauritius shares this distinction of being both English- and French-speaking with Canada, Cameroon, Dominica, Rwanda, Seychelles and Vanuatu. Being both an English-speaking and French-speaking nation, Mauritius is a member of both the Commonwealth of Nations and La Francophonie.
No-Parking traffic cone in English and Chinese, Flic-en-Flac
Other languages spoken in Mauritius mainly include Bhojpuri, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi-Urdu, Arabic language and Chinese. The Mauritian Sign Language is the language of the deaf community. Most Mauritians are at least bilingual, if not trilingual or quadrilingual.
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^(in French)La Francophonie dans le monde 2006–2007 published by the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. Nathan Archived 2018-01-14 at the Wayback Machine, Paris, 2007.
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