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"word": "Kimorisi"
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"word": "মরিশাসী"
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"english": "man or woman",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
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"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
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"ref": "2000, John H. McWhorter, The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages, University of California Press, pages 187–188",
"text": "The are two perspectives on the relationship between Réunionnais, a semicreole, and Mauritian, a typical plantation creole. Baker and Corne (1982) argue that […] Mauritian is the product of a break in the transmission of French, […]",
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"text": "2001, Robert Chaudenson, Salikoko S. Mufwene, and Sheri Pargman, Creolization of Language and Culture (English edition of Robert Chaudenson, Des îles, des hommes, des langues), Routledge, →ISBN, page 47,\nMuch later, Richardson (1963) posits a theory very similar to Jespersen’s, claiming that the [grammatical] system of Mauritian has resulted from the contact of very different systems (French, Malagasy, and Bantu), which allegedly could not merge together because of excessive heterogeneity, but neutralized each other instead."
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"sense": "of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture",
"word": "Kimorisi"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture",
"word": "mauritisk"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "mavrykíjsʹkyj",
"sense": "of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture",
"word": "маврикі́йський"
}
],
"word": "Mauritian"
}
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"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"word": "Mauritiër"
},
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
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},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "môriśasī",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"word": "মরিশাসী"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mauricià"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "co",
"lang": "Corsican",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "co",
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"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Mauricijec"
},
{
"code": "eo",
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"word": "maŭrico"
},
{
"code": "eo",
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"word": "maŭricino"
},
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Mauricien"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Mauricienne"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mauriciano"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mauriciana"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Mauritier"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Mauritierin"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "Mavrikianós",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Μαυρικιανός"
},
{
"code": "ht",
"lang": "Haitian Creole",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
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"code": "ht",
"lang": "Haitian Creole",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mauriziano"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mauriziana"
},
{
"code": "mfe",
"lang": "Mauritian Creole",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "morisien"
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"code": "mfe",
"lang": "Mauritian Creole",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
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"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "morisyenn"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mauritier"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mauritiar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "maurician"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
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"word": "mauriciana"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Maurytyjczyk"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Maurytyjka"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mauritian"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mauritiană"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mavrikíjec",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "маврики́ец"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mavrikíjka",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "маврики́йка"
},
{
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "maurìtzianu"
},
{
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "maurìtziana"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mauriciano"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
"word": "Mmorisi"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent",
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"common-gender"
],
"word": "mauritier"
}
],
"word": "Mauritian"
}
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"ref": "1989, John A. Holm, Pidgins and Creoles: Reference Survey, Cambridge University Press, page 401",
"text": "However, Baker (pc) notes that limero is also a common Mauritian pronunciation.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2000, John H. McWhorter, The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages, University of California Press, pages 187–188",
"text": "The are two perspectives on the relationship between Réunionnais, a semicreole, and Mauritian, a typical plantation creole. Baker and Corne (1982) argue that […] Mauritian is the product of a break in the transmission of French, […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "2001, Robert Chaudenson, Salikoko S. Mufwene, and Sheri Pargman, Creolization of Language and Culture (English edition of Robert Chaudenson, Des îles, des hommes, des langues), Routledge, →ISBN, page 47,\nMuch later, Richardson (1963) posits a theory very similar to Jespersen’s, claiming that the [grammatical] system of Mauritian has resulted from the contact of very different systems (French, Malagasy, and Bantu), which allegedly could not merge together because of excessive heterogeneity, but neutralized each other instead."
}
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]
}
],
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