Indo-European · ISO 639-3 mfe
Morisyen Language morisien
Morisyen is an Indo-European language spoken by about 1.2 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Morisyen is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Morisyen
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Italic
- Latino-Faliscan
- Latinic
- Imperial Latin
- Romance
- Italo-Western Romance
- Western Romance
- Shifted Western Romance
- Northwestern Shifted Romance
- Gallo-Rhaetian
- Oil
- Central Oil
- Macro-French
- Isle-de-France Creole
- Morisyen
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Morisyen language
Morisyen (morisien) is spoken by about 1.2 million people, which makes it the 422nd most spoken language in the world — just behind Northern Qiandong Miao (1.2 million) and ahead of Calderón Highland Quichua (1.2 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Isle-de-France Creole group within the Italic branch.
Where is Morisyen spoken?
Morisyen is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Mauritius (1.2 million). More than half of the population speaks it in Mauritius — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Morisyen is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Morisyen is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are French, Haitian, Romansh, Lombard, Piemontese, Emilian and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 mfe.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.