Fiji Hindi
| Fiji Hindi | |
|---|---|
| फ़िजी बात Fiji Baat | |
| Native to | Fiji, with significant minorities within Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States. |
| Ethnicity | Indo-Fijians and the Indo-Fijian diaspora |
Native speakers | (460,000 cited 1991)[1] |
| Devanagari, Devanagari Braille | |
| Signed Hindi | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Fiji |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | hif |
| Glottolog | fiji1242 |
Fiji Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language which is the mother tongue of 313,000 Indo-Fijian (people of Indian origin) in Fiji.
This language's relationship with Modern Standard Hindi is similar to those between Dutch and Afrikaans. The language is composed of the Eastern Hindi dialects (Bhojpuri and Awadhi) with numerous English and Fijian words. It is spoken with a Pacific twang.
In recent times, due to the political upheaval in Fiji, large numbers of Fiji Indians have migrated to Australia, New Zealand, United States and Canada, taking the Fiji Hindi language with them.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Fiji Hindi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Other websites
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Fiji Hindi edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
