Mauritius was a British colony for almost 200 years, excepting for the domains of administration and teaching, the English language was never really spoken on the island.

毛里求斯作为英国殖民地已有近200年的历史，除了在行政领域和教学领域，岛上从未真正使用过英语。

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Nutrition labels are not only inconsistent but often not in English, the common language spoken in most Pacific island countries.

营养标签不仅标准不一致，往往还不使用英文——大多数太平洋岛屿国家的通用语言。

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For his part, Williams learned the Algonquian language and became renowned for his role as a peacemaker with the Narragansett and other tribes on behalf of Rhode Island and other colonies.

对于他自己来说，威廉姆斯学会了阿尔冈琴语，因代表罗德岛和其他殖民地与纳拉甘塞特和其他部落进行协调而建立了声望。

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The whistled language of La Gomera Island in the Canaries, the Silbo Gomero, replicates the islanders' habitual language (Castilian Spanish) with whistling.

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Which brings us back to de Boinod's title: tingo is an invaluable word from the Pascuense language of Easter Island meaning "to borrow objects from a friend's house, one by one, until there's nothing left".

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The island's then chief minister, Tony Brown, also wrote to UNESCO claiming the language was "still flourishing on the island".

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