Mauritian
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- adjective
- /mɔːˈrɪʃən/
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mauriciano
- But in 2004, the Mauritian Government, seeking to align and reform their CPE system to best cater for disadvantaged children within the education system, with the help of MPRB and other NGOs around the island, forged a new way to tackle the issues of education in less developed regions.
- Mauritian Hindus
I mean, you can go to Borough Market and eat Mauritian food and African food and Indian food and Mexican food.
- I mean, you can go to Borough Market and eat Mauritian food and African food and Indian food and Mexican food.
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I mean, you can go to Borough Market and eat Mauritian food and African food and Indian food and Mexican food.
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The Mauritian Hindus apply vama categories of caste differentiation but interpret them differently in the context of competition for political power and privileges.
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Oh, and of course I had these Mauritian ones which were in Creole.
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This is quite a surprising situation: the language of instruction at school is different from the language learned at home, which is Mauritian Creole, their maternal language, or the national language spoken by nearly all Mauritians.
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Research was conducted to determine why there are so many failures within the CPE—Certificate of Primary Education, the Mauritian national primary education system and the stepping stone to secondary education in the country.
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Zeness La Limier, or "Youthful Light" in English, is a program that sets out to counter the high dropout rate of children aged between 10 and 17 years in the Mauritian educational system.
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The centre receives direct funding from the Mauritian Government's Ministry of Education and through the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, assisted by the European Union's Decentralised Co-operation Program, an intervention program to tackle and alleviate poverty, largely project-driven, in which funds are provided to the Government of Mauritius.
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The Mauritian firm of Ajum Goolam Hoosen and Co., for example, supplied dahl, ghee, dates, and haberdashery to Aboobaker Amod.
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The MPRB, since its formation, acts to advocate, educate, involve, and inform its community of Roche Bois, which has been beset by poverty and exclusion in Mauritian society for many years on an educational, social, and communalist level.
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The festival featured traditional Mauritian music and dance, showcasing the island's rich cultural heritage.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mauritian comes from the island name Mauritius, which was named after Prince Maurice. The ending -an means 'from' or 'of', like in American, so Mauritian describes something or someone 'of Mauritius'.