Language Stats: compare key data on Mauritius & United Kingdom

French status: Status of French language in selected countries. Additional information for Mauritius provided by the Ministry of Tourism website of the Republic of Mauritius
Languages: A rank ordering of languages starting with the largest and sometimes includes the percent of total population speaking that language.
Linguistic diversity index: LDI.
Major language(s): Country major languages.

SHOW ALL

LESS

SHARE TWEET EMBED

STAT	Mauritius	United Kingdom
French status	One of two official languages (the other being English). Used widely and considered more popular than English. The elderly tend to use creole. <a href=/graph-T/med_new>Newspapers</a>, radio programs, <a href=/encyclopedia/Television>TV</a>. Bible 1530-1986.French Creole(A French patois ,French derived) used as well.	<a href=/country/fr>French</a> is only spoken by about 11% of the <a href=/graph-T/peo_pop>population</a> of Channel Islands, mainly older people. Official <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. Bible 1530-1986.
Languages	Creole 80.5%, Bhojpuri 12.1%, French 3.4%, English (official; spoken by less than 1% of the population), other 3.7%, unspecified 0.3%	English, Welsh (about 26% of the population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland)
Linguistic diversity index	0.641 Ranked 61st. 5 times more than United Kingdom	0.139 Ranked 152nd.
Major language(s)	English (official), Creole, French, Indian languages	English

SHOW ALL

LESS

Citation

Adblocker detected! Please consider reading this notice.

We've detected that you are using AdBlock Plus or some other adblocking software which is preventing the page from fully loading.

We don't have any banner, Flash, animation, obnoxious sound, or popup ad. We do not implement these annoying types of ads!

We need money to operate the site, and almost all of it comes from our online advertising.

Please add www.nationmaster.com to your ad blocking whitelist or disable your adblocking software.