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{{Short description|French-creole language of the western Indian Ocean}}
{{distinguish|text=[[Bourbonnais dialect]] of France}}
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{{Infobox language family 
|name=Bourbonnais Creole
|region =[[Indian Ocean]]
|speakers         = ~2,000,000{{cn|date=January 2023}}
|date=no date
|ref=
|familycolor=Creole
|fam1=[[French-based creole languages|French Creole]]
|child1=
|glotto=none
|glotto2=isle1246
|glottoname2=Mauritian–Seselwa
|glottorefname2=Isle-de-France Creole
|glotto3=reun1238
|glottoname3=Réunion
|glottorefname3=Réunion Creole French
}}

'''Bourbonnais Creole''' is the group of [[French-based creole languages]] spoken in the western [[Indian Ocean]]. The close relation of the languages is from the similar historical and cultural backgrounds of the islands. The name is derived from the former name of [[Réunion Island]]: Bourbon Island before 1793. Another name is '''Mascarene Creole''', as the predominant [[island group]] is called the [[Mascarene]]s.

There are six languages in this group:

* [[Agalega Creole]]
* [[Chagossian Creole]]
* [[Mauritian Creole]]
* [[Réunion Creole]]
* [[Rodriguan Creole]]
* [[Seychellois Creole]]

==Bibliography==
*Chaudenson, Robert (1974). ''Le Lexique du parler créole de la Réunion''. Paris: Champion, tomes I-II.
*Baker, Philip & Chris Corne (1982). ''Isle de France Creole: Affinities and origins''. Ann Arbor:Karoma.
*Faine, Jules (1939). ''Le créole dans l'univers: études comparatives des parlers français-créoles. Tome I: le mauricien''. Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie de l'État.
*Parkvall, Mikael (2000). ''Out of Africa: African influences in Atlantic Creoles''. London: Battlebridge.[https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172443/http://www.ling.su.se/forskning/avh/parkvall.html]
*Wittmann, Henri (1972). ''Les parlers créoles des Mascareignes: une orientation''. Trois-Rivières: Travaux linguistiques de l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières 1.[https://books.google.com/books?id=MakHAQAAIAAJ]
*Wittmann, Henri (1995). "Grammaire comparée des variétés coloniales du français populaire de Paris du 17e siècle et origines du français québécois." ''Le français des Amériques'', ed. Robert Fournier & Henri Wittmann, 281-334. Trois-Rivières: Presses universitaires de Trois-Rivières.[http://www.nou-la.org/ling/1995a-fda.pdf]
*Wittmann, Henri (2001). "Lexical diffusion and the glottogenetics of creole French." CreoList debate, parts I-VI, appendixes 1-9. The Linguist List, Eastern Michigan University & Wayne State University.[http://www.nou-la.org/ling/2001c-lexical_diffusion/01h2LexDiffFin.html]
*Wittmann, Henri & Robert Fournier (1987). "Interprétation diachronique de la morphologie verbale du créole réunionnais." ''Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée'' 6:2.137-50.[http://www.nou-la.org/ling/1987f-morphodiaCR.pdf]

{{languages derived from French}}
{{Gallo-Romance languages and dialects}}
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{{#related:Magoua dialect}}
{{#related:Saint-Denis, Réunion}}

[[Category:French-based pidgins and creoles]]
[[Category:French language in Africa]]