28.1213, Featured Linguist: Fabiola Henri

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1213. Fri Mar 10 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1213, Featured Linguist: Fabiola Henri

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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 10:55:38
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Featured Linguist: Meet Fabiola Henri

 
Dear subscribers,

We are pleased to present you our next featured linguist of the 2017 Fund
Drive: Fabiola Henri! Read her story and more on our blog or on our fund drive
web page:

http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/

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My identity as a formal creolist has been shaped by interplay between my
country of origin and my formative educational background. I am a native
speaker of Mauritian, a French-based creole spoken in Mauritius off the coast
of Madagascar. 

At a young age, I became painfully aware of how prejudices plague Mauritian
creole-speakers and, in my particular case, the Creole community. I learned on
the playground that speaking patois marks one as uneducated. My formal
education was conducted in a colonial language but my family spoke creole at
home. Mauritian education is built on the British colonial system but strives
to accommodate the linguistic heritage of Mauritians—other than those of
African descent. Mauritian creole—natively spoken by more than 95% of the
population—only gained ancestral language status in 2011. Before that date,
Mauritian pupils of African ancestry before took Chapel and etiquette classes
instead of the rigorous courses offered to students from other ethnic
backgrounds. And if at higher levels Creole students were authorized to
register for Hinduism, they were not allowed into the classroom.  

(...)

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