Example 55-148

mo papa sort depi Sesel, li'nn vini pu travay dan Moris
mo
poss
papa
father
sort
come
depi
from
Sesel,
Seychelles
li'nn
3sg.compl
vini
come
pu
to
travay
work
dan
in
Moris
Mauritius
My father comes from the Seychelles, he came to work in Mauritius.
Comment:
This is a corpus example, and we have no information about the socioethnic background of the speaker. According to us, it would be more usual, at least, to say Mo papa sort Sesel. Depi probably occurs more often in Bhojpuri-influenced Mauritian Creole.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kriegel et al. 2008: 182