Ethnic classification of Mauritians with Black African descent
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Mauritian Creoles
Regions with significant populations
Mauritius, Australia, France, United Kingdom
Languages
Mauritian Creole, French
Religion
Christianity with elements of Rastafari (To a lesser extent Hinduism and Islam)
Mauritian Creoles are the people on the island of Mauritius and in the wider overseas Mauritian diaspora who trace their roots to Black Africans who were brought to Mauritius under slavery from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.[1] It can also refer to and include members of the island's mixed race or Métis community, especially if they are Christian.[2][3] In government records, creoles along with Franco-Mauritians form part of the broader group known as Population Générale.[4]
Nowadays, a significant proportion of Mauritian Creoles have African ancestry with varying amounts of French and Indian ancestry. Rodriguais, Agaléans and Chagossians are usually incorporated within this ethnic group.
Mauritian Creoles along with their Rodriguais, Agaléan and Chagossian counterparts make up 28% of the Mauritian population living in the Republic of Mauritius.[5] There is also significant representation of Mauritian Creoles within the overseas Mauritian Disapora.
Mauritian Creoles have made a significant contribution to the development of Mauritian culture including the development of the islands iconic sega dance and music genre.[6][circular reference][7]
French based, Mauritian Creole is also the most commonly used local language in Mauritius and is unique to the island, having evolved from its use in the creole community of Mauritius at the time of slavery and prior to the arrival of indentured labourers from India.[8]
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of MauritianCreoles within the overseas Mauritian Disapora. MauritianCreoles have made a significant contribution to the development of Mauritian culture...
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laborers. MauritianCreoles (descendants of Africans) are twenty-eight percent of the population. Today, a significant proportion of Creoles are of African...
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France. The creole cuisine is eaten by every Mauritian and has its influences from African, Indian, and French cuisine. MauritianCreole dishes typically...
Franco-Mauritians, usually having the same religion and denomination as the Creoles, have sometimes emphasised their differences from the Creoles by practising...
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Africa: African influences in Atlantic Creoles. London: Battlebridge.[1] Wittmann, Henri (1972). Les parlers créoles des Mascareignes: une orientation. Trois-Rivières:...
(parliament) only. While the lingua franca is MauritianCreole, French is spoken by a majority of Mauritians and is used in the media while English is used...
Greek, Biblical Hebrew, English, Malay, native languages of Indonesia, MauritianCreole, Tagalog, Russian, and Sinhala and Dhivehi. Tamil loanwords in Ancient...
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production considerably. The sugar magnates, mostly French and MauritianCreoles, dominated Mauritian civil life, until challenged in the 1910s in a period of...
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occupation. The MauritianCreole people trace their origins to the plantation owners and slaves who worked in the sugar fields. Indo-Mauritians are descended...
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