Seychellois Creole, also known as Kreol, is the creole language of the Seychelles. It shares official language status with English and French, in contrast to Mauritian Creole, which has no official status in Mauritius. Current distribution of Human Language Families A language family is a group of related languages said to have descended from a common proto-language. ... A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable language that originated from a non-trivial combination of two or more languages, typically with many features that are not inherited from any parent. ... A French creole, more properly French-based creole language, is a creole language with substantial influence from the French language. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is an international standard for language codes. ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... Unicode is an industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in any of the worlds writing systems. ... A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable language that originated from a non-trivial combination of two or more languages, typically with many features that are not inherited from any parent. ... An official language is a language that is given a unique legal status in the countries, states, and other territories. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Mauritian Creole is a creole language or dialect from Mauritius. ...

Description

Since its independence in 1976, the government of the Seychelles has sought to develop Creole as a separate language, with its own orthography and grammar, establishing Lenstiti Kreol (l'Institut créole, the Creole Institute) for this purpose. Year 1976 Pick up sticks(MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The spelling of words in Creole has been considerably simplified compared to the original French, as demonstrated by the following translations of 'We all need to work together to build our future':

Creole: Nou tou bezwen travay ansamn pou kree nou lavenir.

French: Nous tous avons besoin de travailler ensemble à créer notre avenir.

In Creole, the definite article (derived from the French le, la and les) forms part of the word, so that 'the future' is lavenir (as opposed to the French avenir). The possessive is formed by adding the pronoun, so that 'our future' is nou lavenir, literally, 'we-the-future'. Similarly in the plural, les Îles Éloignés Seychelles in French ('the Outer Seychelles Islands') becomes Zil Elwanyen Sesel in Creole. Note the z in Zil, as, in French, "les Îles" is pronounced /le"zil/.

Text Sample

(Lord's Prayer) The Sermon on the Mount by Carl Heinrich Bloch. ...

Ou, nou papa ki dan lesyel,

Fer ou ganny rekonnet konman Bondye.

Ki ou renny i arive.

Ki ou lavolonte i ganny realize

Lo later parey i ete dan lesyel

Donn nou sak zour nou dipen ki nou bezwen.

Pardonn nou pour bann lofans

Ki noun fer anver ou,

Parey nou pardonn sa ki n ofans nou.

Pa les tantasyon domin nou,

Me tir nou dan lemal.

(see also Koste Seselwa) Koste Seselwa is the national anthem of Seychelles. ...

External links

• 21st Creole festival, October 2006 (In Creole)

References

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