Mauritius
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Bengali
[ben] Users: 6,660 in Mauritius (Leclerc 2018c). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Outer Languages, Eastern, Bengali-Assamese.
Bhojpuri
[bho] Widespread. Users: 66,000 in Mauritius (Leclerc 2018c). Status: 5* (Dispersed). Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Outer Languages, Eastern, Bihari.
Chinese, Hakka
[hak] Users: 4,100 in Mauritius (Leclerc 2018c). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Sino-Tibetan, Chinese.
Chinese, Mandarin
[cmn] Users: 20,200 in Mauritius (Leclerc 2018c). Status: 5* (Dispersed). Classification: Sino-Tibetan, Chinese.
English
[eng] Users: 203,100 in Mauritius, all users. L1 users: 3,100 in Mauritius (Leclerc 2018c). L2 users: 200,000 (Crystal 2003a). Status: 1 (National). Statutory national language (1992, Constitution, Articles 33,46,49), used in education. Alternate Names: Anglais. Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English.
French
[fra] Widespread. Users: 921,000 in Mauritius, all users. L1 users: 51,000 in Mauritius (Leclerc 2018c). L2 users: 870,000 (2018). Status: 3 (Wider communication). De facto national working language. Alternate Names: français. Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, Oïl, French.
Gujarati
[guj] Users: 2,000 in Mauritius (Leclerc 2018c). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Intermediate Divisions, Western, Gujarati.
Hindi
[hin] Users: 36,000 in Mauritius (Leclerc 2018c). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Western Hindi, Hindustani.
Malagasy
[plt] Users: 1,300 in Mauritius (Leclerc 2018c). Status: Unestablished. Alternate Names: Malgache, Plateau Malagasy. Classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Greater Barito, East, Malagasy.
Marathi
[mar] Users: 17,000 in Mauritius (Leclerc 2018c). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Outer Languages, Southern.
Mauritian Sign Language
[lsy] Scattered. Users: 1,000 (2021 DBS/DOOR/SIL). Estimated, assuming 0.1% of total population. Status: 5 (Developing). Alternate Names: MSL. Classification: Sign language, Deaf community sign language.
Morisyen
[mfe] Widespread. Users: 976,000 in Mauritius (Leclerc 2018c). Total users in all countries: 1,027,800. Status: 3 (Wider communication). De facto language of national identity. Originated in 1721 in the colonial society in Bourbon and brought to Mauritius. Lingua franca between freed slaves, Indian and Chinese immigrants. Alternate Names: Creolophone, Kreol, Kreol Mauricean, Kreol Morisyin, Kreole, Maurisyen, Mauritian, Mauritian Creole, Mauritius Creole French, Maurysen. Autonym: Kreol Morisien. Classification: Creole, French based.
Punjabi, Eastern
[pan] Users: 25,000 in Mauritius (Leclerc 2018c). Status: 5* (Dispersed). Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Intermediate Divisions, Western, Panjabi.
Tamil
[tam] Flacq, Plaines Wilhems, and Savanne districts. Users: 1,100 in Mauritius (Leclerc 2018c). Status: 5* (Dispersed). Classification: Dravidian, Southern, Tamil-Kannada, Tamil-Kodagu, Tamil-Malayalam, Tamil.
Telugu
[tel] Users: 19,000 in Mauritius (Leclerc 2018c). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Dravidian, South-Central, Telugu.
Urdu
[urd] Widespread. Users: 800 in Mauritius (Leclerc 2018c). Status: 4 (Educational). Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Western Hindi, Hindustani.