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| Réunion Creole | |
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| kréol rénioné | |
 Sign in Réunionese Creole | |
| Native to | Réunion |
Native speakers | (560,000 cited 1987)[1] |
French Creole
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| Official status | |
Official language in | Réunion |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | rcf |
| Glottolog | reun1238 |
| Linguasphere | 51-AAC-cf |
Réunion Creole, orReunionese Creole (Réunion Creole French:kréol rénioné;French:créole réunionnais), is aFrench-basedcreole language spoken onRéunion. It is derived mainly fromFrench and includes terms fromMalagasy,Hindi,Portuguese,Gujarati andTamil.[2] In recent years, there has been an effort to develop a spelling dictionary and grammar rules. Partly because of the lack of an official orthography but also because schools are taught in French, Réunion Creole is rarely written. Notably, two translations of the French comicAsterix have been published.[3]
Réunion Creole is the mainvernacular of the island and is used in most colloquial and familiar settings. It is, however, in a state ofdiglossia with French as thehigh language – Réunion Creole is used in informal settings and conversations, while French is the language of writing, education, administration and more formal conversations.
Reunionese Creole first formed within the first 50 years of Reunion being inhabited.[2] Most of the people living in Reunion were French, Malagasy orIndo-Portuguese.[2] Most families at this time had at least one native French speaker.[4]
It is now the native language of 90% of the island's population.[5]
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