Mauritian Creole is a French-based creole language spoken by about 1.2 million people in Mauritius, where it is used as the lingua franca. Creole tends to be spoken in homes and informal situations, while French is used in work places, and French and English are used in schools and formal situations.
As well as words of French origin, it also contains some vocabularly from English and various African and Asian languages spoken on Mauritius.
Information on Mauritian Creole pronunciation compiled by Wolfram Siegel
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Information about Mauritian Creole
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritian_Creole
http://linguistics.siu.edu/jpclfiles/maur.html
http://folk.uio.no/geirthe/Creoles.html