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Mauritius</h1>
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For other uses, see <a class="mw-disambig" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius_%28disambiguation%29" title="Mauritius (disambiguation)">Mauritius (disambiguation)</a>.</div>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a>: <a class="external text" href="https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Mauritius&params=-20.2_N_57.5_E_type:country">20.2°S 57.5°E</a>

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<th class="mergedtoprow" colspan="3" style="font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.2em; padding: 0.25em 0.33em 0.33em; text-align: center;">Republic of Mauritius 
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République de Maurice  (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>) 
Republik Moris  (<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritian_creole_language" title="Mauritian creole language">Mauritian creole</a>)</div>
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<td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 58%;"><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Mauritius.svg" title="Flag of Mauritius"><img alt="" class="thumbborder" data-file-height="300" data-file-width="450" height="83" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Mauritius.svg/125px-Flag_of_Mauritius.svg.png" width="125" /></a></td>
<td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;"><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Mauritius_%28Original_version%29.svg" title="Coat of arms of Mauritius"><img alt="" data-file-height="392" data-file-width="420" height="79" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Coat_of_arms_of_Mauritius_%28Original_version%29.svg/85px-Coat_of_arms_of_Mauritius_%28Original_version%29.svg.png" width="85" /></a></td>
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<td colspan="3" style="line-height: 1.2em; text-align: center;">Motto: "Stella Clavisque Maris Indici" (<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_language" title="Latin language">Latin</a>) 
"Star and Key of the Indian Ocean"</td>
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Mauritius (<a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/En-us-Mauritius.ogg" title="Listen"><img alt="Listen" data-file-height="11" data-file-width="11" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Speakerlink-new.svg/11px-Speakerlink-new.svg.png" width="11" /></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:En-us-Mauritius.ogg" title="File:En-us-Mauritius.ogg">i</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English">/məˈrɪʃəs/</a>; French: Maurice), officially the Republic of Mauritius (French: République de Maurice), is an <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_nation" title="Island nation">island nation</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean" title="Indian Ocean">Indian Ocean</a> about 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) off the southeast coast of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_continent" title="African continent">African continent</a>. The country includes the island of Mauritius, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigues" title="Rodrigues">Rodrigues</a> (560 kilometres (350 mi) east), and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_islands_of_Mauritius" title="Outer islands of Mauritius">outer islands</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agal%C3%A9ga" title="Agaléga">Agaléga</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Brandon" title="St. Brandon">St. Brandon</a> and two disputed territories). The islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues (172 km (107 mi) southwest) form part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascarene_Islands" title="Mascarene Islands">Mascarene Islands</a>, along with nearby <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9union" title="Réunion">Réunion</a>, a French overseas department. The area of the country is 2,040 km2. The capital and largest city is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Louis" title="Port Louis">Port Louis</a>.

Mauritius claims sovereignty over the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagos_Archipelago" title="Chagos Archipelago">Chagos Archipelago</a> (United Kingdom) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tromelin_Island" title="Tromelin Island">Tromelin Island</a> (France). The United Kingdom excised the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritian territory prior to Mauritian independence in 1965.

The island of Mauritius was visited during the medieval period by the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_people" title="Arab people">Arabs</a> and then by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Portugal" title="Kingdom of Portugal">Portuguese</a>, who named it Dina Arobi and Cirne, respectively. The island was uninhabited until the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Republic" title="Dutch Republic">Dutch Republic</a> established a colony in 1638, with the Dutch naming the island after <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_of_Nassau,_Prince_of_Orange" title="Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange">Prince Maurice van Nassau</a>. The Dutch colony was abandoned in 1710, and, five years later, the island became a French colony and was named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_de_France_%28Mauritius%29" title="Isle de France (Mauritius)">Isle de France</a>. Due to its strategic position, Mauritius was known as the "star and key" of the Indian Ocean.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-nao-18">[18]</a>

Mauritius became an important base on the trade routes from Europe to the East before the opening of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal" title="Suez Canal">Suez Canal</a> and was involved in the long power struggle between the French and the British. The French won the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grand_Port" title="Battle of Grand Port">Battle of Grand Port</a>, their only naval victory over the British during these wars, but they <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Isle_de_France" title="Invasion of Isle de France">could not prevent the British from landing</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap_Malheureux" title="Cap Malheureux">Cap Malheureux</a>
 three months later. They formally surrendered on the fifth day of the 
invasion, 3 December 1810, on terms allowing settlers to keep their land
 and property, the use of the French language, and the law of France in 
criminal and civil matters.

Under British rule, the island's name reverted to Mauritius. The 
country became an independent state on 12 March 1968, following the 
adoption of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Mauritius" title="Constitution of Mauritius">a new constitution</a> and became a republic within the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth</a> in 1992.

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritians" title="Mauritians">people of Mauritius</a> are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiracial" title="Multiracial">multiethnic</a>, multi-religious, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism" title="Multiculturalism">multicultural</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilingual" title="Multilingual">multilingual</a>. The island's government is closely modelled on the Westminster parliamentary system, and Mauritius is highly ranked for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index" title="Democracy Index">democracy</a> and for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_economic_freedom" title="List of countries by economic freedom">economic</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_in_the_World" title="Freedom in the World">political freedom</a>. Along with the other Mascarene Islands, Mauritius is known for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_of_Mauritius" title="Wildlife of Mauritius">its varied flora and fauna</a>, with many species <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemism" title="Endemism">endemic</a> to the island. The island is widely known as the only known home of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo" title="Dodo">dodo</a>,
 which, along with several other avian species, was made extinct by 
human activities relatively shortly after the island's settlement.</div>
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Islands of the Republic of Mauritius labelled in black, Tromelin and Chagos archipelago are claimed by Mauritius.</div>
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<td colspan="2">Capital 
and largest city</td>
<td><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Port_Louis,_Mauritius.svg"><img alt="Coat of arms of Port Louis, Mauritius.svg" data-file-height="528" data-file-width="751" height="21" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Coat_of_arms_of_Port_Louis%2C_Mauritius.svg/30px-Coat_of_arms_of_Port_Louis%2C_Mauritius.svg.png" width="30" /></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Louis" title="Port Louis">Port Louis</a> 
<a class="external text" href="https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Mauritius&params=20_10_S_57_31_E_type:city">20°10′S 57°31′E</a></td>
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<td>None a</td>
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<td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> 
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> 
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritian_Creole" title="Mauritian Creole">Mauritian Creole</a>b 
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhojpuri_language" title="Bhojpuri language">Bhojpuri</a></td>
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<li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a></li>
<li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi_language" title="Hindi language">Hindi</a></li>
<li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese" title="Mandarin Chinese">Mandarin</a></li>
<li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_language" title="Marathi language">Marathi</a></li>
<li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a></li>
<li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a></li>
<li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_language" title="Telugu language">Telugu</a></li>
<li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu_language" title="Urdu language">Urdu</a></li>
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<th colspan="2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym</a></th>
<td><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritian" title="Mauritian">Mauritian</a></td>
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<th colspan="2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Mauritius" title="Politics of Mauritius">Government</a></th>
<td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_republic" title="Parliamentary republic">Parliamentary republic</a></td>
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<td style="padding-left: 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Mauritius" title="President of Mauritius">President</a></td>
<td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameenah_Gurib" title="Ameenah Gurib">Ameenah Gurib</a></td>
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<td style="padding-left: 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_Mauritius" title="Vice President of Mauritius">Vice-President</a></td>
<td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_Ohsan_Bellepeau" title="Monique Ohsan Bellepeau">Monique Ohsan Bellepeau</a></td>
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<td style="padding-left: 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Mauritius" title="Prime Minister of Mauritius">Prime Minister</a></td>
<td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anerood_Jugnauth" title="Anerood Jugnauth">Anerood Jugnauth</a></td>
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<th colspan="2">Legislature</th>
<td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assembly_%28Mauritius%29" title="National Assembly (Mauritius)">National Assembly</a></td>
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<th colspan="3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence" title="Independence">Independence</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></th>
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<td style="padding-left: 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Mauritius" title="Constitution of Mauritius">Constitution of Mauritius</a></td>
<td>12 March 1968 </td>
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<td style="padding-left: 0;">Republic</td>
<td>12 March 1992 </td>
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<th colspan="3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Mauritius" title="Geography of Mauritius">Area</a></th>
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<td style="padding-left: 0;">Total</td>
<td>2,040 km2 (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area" title="List of countries and dependencies by area">179th</a>) 
787 sq mi</td>
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<td style="padding-left: 0;">Water (%)</td>
<td>0.07</td>
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<th colspan="3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Mauritius" title="Demographics of Mauritius">Population</a></th>
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<td style="padding-left: 0;">2014 estimate</td>
<td>1,261,208<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-2014_Population-1">[1]</a> (<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population" title="List of countries by population">156th</a>)</td>
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<td style="padding-left: 0;">2011 census</td>
<td>1,236,817<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-2013_Digest-2">[2]</a></td>
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<td style="padding-left: 0;">Density</td>
<td>618.24/km2 (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_population_density" title="List of sovereign states and dependent territories by population density">19th</a>) 
1,602.55/sq mi</td>
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<td colspan="2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product" title="Gross domestic product">GDP</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity" title="Purchasing power parity">PPP</a>)</td>
<td>2015 estimate</td>
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<td style="padding-left: 0;">Total</td>
<td>$23.322 billion<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-imf-3">[3]</a></td>
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<td style="padding-left: 0;">Per capita</td>
<td>$17,716<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-imf-3">[3]</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_capita" title="List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita">66th</a>)</td>
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<td colspan="2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product" title="Gross domestic product">GDP</a> (nominal)</td>
<td>2016 estimate</td>
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<td style="padding-left: 0;">Total</td>
<td>US$13.551 billion<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-imf-3">[3]</a></td>
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<td style="padding-left: 0;">Per capita</td>
<td>US$10, 530<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-4">[4]</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29_per_capita" title="List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita">68th</a>)</td>
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<td colspan="2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient" title="Gini coefficient">Gini</a> (2012)</td>
<td>35.9<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-5">[5]</a> 
medium</td>
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<td colspan="2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index" title="Human Development Index">HDI</a> (2014)</td>
<td><img alt="Increase" data-file-height="300" data-file-width="300" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" width="11" /> 0.777<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-HDI-6">[6]</a> 
high · <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index" title="List of countries by Human Development Index">63rd</a></td>
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<td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritian_rupee" title="Mauritian rupee">Mauritian rupee</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217" title="ISO 4217">MUR</a>)</td>
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<td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius_Time" title="Mauritius Time">MUT</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>+4)</td>
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<td style="padding-left: 0;">Summer (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</td>
<td>not observed (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>)</td>
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<th colspan="2">Date format</th>
<td>dd/mm/yyyy (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini" title="Anno Domini">AD</a>)</td>
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<td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic" title="Right- and left-hand traffic">left</a></td>
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<th colspan="2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Mauritius" title="Telephone numbers in Mauritius">Calling code</a></th>
<td><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2B230" title="+230">+230</a></td>
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<th colspan="2" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166" title="ISO 3166">ISO 3166 code</a></th>
<td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:MU" title="ISO 3166-2:MU">MU</a></td>
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<th colspan="2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain" title="Country code top-level domain">Internet TLD</a></th>
<td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.mu" title=".mu">.mu</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: right;">a.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0;">The constitution only mention that in parliament English is official and French can be used.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-article49-7">[7]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-govmu.org-8">[8]</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: right;">b.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_language" title="First language">mother tongue</a> of Mauritians (2011 Census).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-2011census-9">[9]</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: right;">c.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0;">These ancestral languages are mostly use in music, religious and cultural activities.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-arabic_act-10">[10]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-chinese_act-11">[11]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-Hindi_act-12">[12]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-marathi_act-13">[13]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-sanskrit_act-14">[14]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-tamil_act-15">[15]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-telegu_act-16">[16]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#cite_note-urdu_act-17">[17]</a></td>
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