NationMaster - Mauritian Language statistics

English speakers	3,000	[30th of 52]
English status Used in secondary school, courts, for road signs. Not widely known. Official language. Bible 1535-1989.
English-speaking population > As an additional language	3,000	[56th of 59]
English-speaking population > Total	3,000	[77th of 99]
French speakers	1,046,011	[5th of 31]
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. Newspapers, radio programs, TV. Bible 1530-1986.French Creole(A French patois ,French derived) used as well.
John Doe > Informal names for unknown or unspecified persons in various countries/regions Sa Nation la, Sa boug la (for male) ; Safame la, Sapitin la (for female)
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%
Languages of the African Union > Illiteracy > Literacy rate	84.3	[104th of 174]

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SOURCES: Ethnologue; Wikipedia: List of countries by English-speaking population ; Wikipedia: List of countries by English-speaking population; Wikipedia: John Doe ; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Wikipedia: Languages of the African Union

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COMMENTARY

Jeetun Premchand
18th October 2009

Please rectify at paragraph starting with John Doe:
1. Sa Nation la means a male person of the black christian community.
2. Sa boug la(for male) is correct.
3. Safame la is a french word meaning " Cette femme la" which is correct for a female person, but Sapitin la means " a prostitute"- word which has been wrongly used for a female.

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