General@lemmygrad.mlM to Thoughts on ...?@lemmygrad.ml · 10 months agoThoughts on the status of English as the current international language?lemmygrad.mlimagemessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down10
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minus-squarebazingabrain [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoive been to mauritius recently and they still speak french even though the brits colonized it for a fair bit, i guess languages changing is a bit more complex, i wonder if theres a field of studies on this?
minus-squaresevenapples@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoWere they previously colonized by the French? Or maybe they switched to French because of their proximity to Madagascar? If I had to guess, I’d say this is jointly studied by linguists, historians and sociologists
minus-squarebazingabrain [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoNo they were colonized by france and then the brits so french stuck, so they speak french english and mauritius creole.
ive been to mauritius recently and they still speak french even though the brits colonized it for a fair bit, i guess languages changing is a bit more complex, i wonder if theres a field of studies on this?
Were they previously colonized by the French? Or maybe they switched to French because of their proximity to Madagascar?
If I had to guess, I’d say this is jointly studied by linguists, historians and sociologists
No they were colonized by france and then the brits so french stuck, so they speak french english and mauritius creole.