Datapoint Mauritian Creole/Size of speaker community

According to an official census in 2000, ca. 80% of the respondents (1,178,848) claim that Creole is the / one of their "home languages" (Kriegel et al. 2008). We estimate that there are more than 1,000,000 speakers of Mauritian Creole.

Values

More than 1,000,000 speakers

Confidence:
Very certain