Wiktionary:About Mauritian Creole

Mauritian Creole (ISO code mfe) is a French-based creole spoken chiefly in Mauritius and nearby islands in the Indian Ocean. This page documents common practices and standards used across Wiktionary in entries for this language.

Entry structure and templates
Entries should follow WT:ELE in general structure, using for every part of speech except verbs, discussed below. Etymologies will generally be from French and should be formatted thus (from ):

Etymology
From.

Entries which begin in a z- but are derived from a French word that does not start in are advised to use.

Verbs
Verbs are easily the most complex type of word in Mauritian Creole, and require their own headword line template,. It requires one unnamed parameter.
 * For normal verbs with medial forms, supply it with the medial form (if it is not the same as the lemma minus the final -e, it will be automatically be categorised in Category:Mauritian Creole irregular verbs)
 * For auxiliary verbs, supply it with aux (Category:Mauritian Creole auxiliary verbs)
 * For verbs that do not have a different medial form, supply it with the page name (Category:Mauritian Creole invariable verbs)

The medial forms are classified as verb forms and use. Their format follows thus (from ):

Verb


Note that although there is a hyphenated reduplicative form (e.g. koz-koze), this is considering to be the "sum of its parts", namely the medial form followed by the lemma form, and thus not inclusible unless it has an idiomatic meaning independent of an intensifying or frequentative meaning.

Orthography
A standard orthography similar to that used in the latest Diksioner Morisien is used. This orthography includes the following attributes for lemma entries:
 *  instead of
 *  instead of  (diksioner morisien not diksyoner morisyen)
 * No diacritical marks whatsoever
 * No Frenchified spellings ( not )
 * The definite article expressed as a hyphenated suffix, not part of the word (kisann-la not kisanla)

Spellings that do not follow this standard may be included if they are citeable. The format of an alternative spelling should look like this (from ):

Attestation
As a language with limited documentation, only one use or mention is necessary to cite a term. If the validity of a term is doubted, WT:RFV can be used.

Terms should display the template if they use less than three uses to verify an entry, which produces the following output: