Bourbonnais Creole

Bourbonnais Creole is a group of French-based creole languages spoken in the western Indian Ocean. The close relation of the languages is a consequence of the similar historical and cultural backgrounds of the islands. The name is derived from the former name of Réunion Island, which was called Bourbon Island prior to 1793. Another name is Mascarene Creole, derived from the main island group associated with these languages.

Bourbonnais Creole
Geographic
distribution		Indian Ocean
Linguistic classificationFrench Creole
  • Bourbonnais Creole
GlottologNone
isle1246  (Mauritian–Seselwa)[1]
reun1238  (Réunion)[2]

There are six languages in this group:

Bibliography
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  • Baker, Philip & Chris Corne (1982). Isle de France Creole: Affinities and origins. Ann Arbor:Karoma.
  • Faine, Jules (1939). Le créole dans l'univers: études comparatives des parlers français-créoles. Tome I: le mauricien. Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie de l'État.
  • Parkvall, Mikael (2000). Out of Africa: African influences in Atlantic Creoles. London: Battlebridge.
  • Wittmann, Henri (1972). Les parlers créoles des Mascareignes: une orientation. Trois-Rivières: Travaux linguistiques de l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières 1.
  • Wittmann, Henri (1995). "Grammaire comparée des variétés coloniales du français populaire de Paris du 17e siècle et origines du français québécois." Le français des Amériques, ed. Robert Fournier & Henri Wittmann, 281-334. Trois-Rivières: Presses universitaires de Trois-Rivières.
  • Wittmann, Henri (2001). "Lexical diffusion and the glottogenetics of creole French." CreoList debate, parts I-VI, appendixes 1-9. The Linguist List, Eastern Michigan University & Wayne State University.
  • Wittmann, Henri & Robert Fournier (1987). "Interprétation diachronique de la morphologie verbale du créole réunionnais." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 6:2.137-50.
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Isle-de-France Creole". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Réunion Creole French". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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