This article is about the language. For the people, see Seychellois Creole people.
Seychellois Creole
kreol, seselwa
Native to
Seychelles
Native speakers
(73,000 cited 1998)[1]
Language family
French Creole
Bourbonnais Creoles
Seychellois Creole
Dialects
Chagossian Creole
Writing system
Latin
Official status
Official language in
Seychelles
Regulated by
Lenstiti Kreol
Language codes
ISO 639-3
crs
Glottolog
sese1246
Linguasphere
51-AAC-cea (& -ceb)
Location of Seychelles where the creole is spoken
Sign in Seychellois Creole, La Digue. Ede pou kit La Digue prop silvouple, meaning "Please help to keep La Digue tidy."
Seychellois Creole (/seɪˈʃɛlwɑː/), also known as kreol, is the French-based creole language spoken by the Seychelles Creole people of the Seychelles. It shares national language status with English and French (in contrast to Mauritian and Réunion Creole, which lack official status in Mauritius and France).
^Seychellois Creole at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
and 24 Related for: Seychellois Creole information
SeychelloisCreole (/seɪˈʃɛlwɑː/), also known as kreol, is the French-based creole language spoken by the Seychelles Creole people of the Seychelles....
SeychelloisCreole people /seɪˈʃɛlwɑː ˈkrioʊl/ are an ethnic group native to Seychelles, who speak SeychelloisCreole. They are the predominant ethnic...
officially the Republic of Seychelles (French: République des Seychelles; SeychelloisCreole: Repiblik Sesel), is an island country and archipelagic state consisting...
in the early 1970s. Ilwa is a variety of Mauritian Creole with influences from SeychelloisCreole. It is currently spoken mainly in Mauritius and the...
Chagossian Creole Mauritian Creole Réunion Creole Rodriguan CreoleSeychelloisCreole Chaudenson, Robert (1974). Le Lexique du parler créole de la Réunion. Paris:...
color Mauritian Creole people also Réunion CreoleSeychelloisCreole people Sierra Leone Creole people Surinamese Creole people Alaskan Creole, sometimes colloquially...
of the Seychelles. It is subdivided into 100 cents. In the local SeychelloisCreole (Seselwa) language, it is called the roupi and roupie in French. The...
use largely because it is used by the Franco-Seychellois minority and is similar to SeychelloisCreole. Demographics of Seychelles Languages of Mauritius...
Agalega creole is a creole language influenced by French spoken in Agalega. It has been heavily influenced by both Mauritian Creole and SeychelloisCreole, as...
language. Mauritian Creole is a French-based creole language that may be related to the Seychellois, Rodriguan, and Chagossian Creoles. Linguists disagree...
mixture of French and South-East African (Creole) influences. The local SeychelloisCreole (Kreol), a creole language derived from French and South-East...
Cameroon; Cape Verdean Creole in Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau Creole in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, all from Portuguese; SeychelloisCreole in the Seychelles...
Front Progressiste du Peuple Seychellois) until June 2009, when it changed its name to the People's Party (SeychelloisCreole: Parti Lepep, PL). The party...
it is often used as an ingredient to give a tangy flavor to many Seychelloiscreole dishes, especially fish dishes. It is often used in grilled fish and...
Central Bank of Seychelles (French: Banque centrale des Seychelles, SeychelloisCreole: Labank santral Sesel), is the central bank of Seychelles. It was...
colonists, comprising 15 white men, eight Africans and five Indians. The SeychelloisCreole language developed as a means of communication between the different...
Islands where it is the only breeding bird of prey. It is known in SeychelloisCreole as the katiti after its loud, shrill call. It is the smallest of the...
Seychelles—République des Seychelles SeychelloisCreole: Sesel— Repiblik Sesel Victoria English: Victoria French: Victoria SeychelloisCreole: Victoria 106,471 451 km2...
people, Scottish-Indian Other mixed diaspora Chinese Indians Dougla SeychelloisCreole people Indian-origin religions diaspora: Buddhist diaspora: Tibetan...
of Madagascar Culture of Indonesia Culture of Oceania SeychelloisCreole people Mauritian Creoles Cafres Cape Malay "Genomic investigation of the ancestry...
eating or chewing, in several Caribbean English Creoles meaning "to eat" (compare SeychelloisCreole nyanmnyanm, also meaning "to eat"). Wolof is spoken...
Indo-Mauritian (Bihari) Réunionnais of Indian origin (Malbars) Indo-Seychellois Indians in Kenya Indians in Mozambique Indians in Tanzania Indians in...
Seychellois cuisine is the cuisine of the Republic of Seychelles, an archipelago country consisting of 115 islands. Fish plays a prominent part in country's...
Global Information
Seychelles
